Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:34:08 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: keymap set after file system decryption Message-ID: <CAN6yY1u-BStBuFiX7y4gisD=YXs2eJAEqv4S7TmPVtxh_Ww9Hg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <271086927.242379.1450280096357.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail18.arcor-online.net> References: <37578766.236860.1450260266870.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail18.arcor-online.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512161545400.1026@mail.fig.ol.no> <271086927.242379.1450280096357.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail18.arcor-online.net>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze@arcor.de>
wrote:
> Trond Endrest=C3=B8l <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
>
> > I guess we who live outside the US should take into account that PCs
> > are initialised by firmware to the US keyboard layout and the 437 code
> > page, courtesy of IBM, 1981.
>
> In 1981 I had accepted this. Now it's simply a bug and I wonder it has
> not been fixed in 22 years. I'll file a bug report.
>
> > I'm not sure if the creators of (U)EFI has considered other keyboard
> > layouts and/or code pages at boot time.
>
> I don't care for the BIOS here, the OS has to take care of it. It may be
> ok that at the boot prompt only US keymap is set. But when the rc script=
s
> are running the keymap must be set correctly (as one of the first actions=
).
>
> > A bad workaround is to copy the suitable keymap from /usr/share... to
> > /etc, along with /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol, and add a suitable line to one
> > or either of /etc/rc.d/geli{,2}, e.g.:
> >
> > /etc/kbdcontrol -l /etc/german.iso.kbd
> >
> > kbdcontrol is linked only to libc:
> >
> > $ ldd `which kbdcontrol`
> > /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol:
> > libc.so.7 =3D> /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800827000)
>
> In my case it's simpler since I have /usr in /, but as you descripted
> kbdcontrol must be in /sbin and the maps in /etc in the future.
>
> Carsten
>
You can specify your default keymap in your kernel config file.
ATKBD_DFLT_KEYBD. It's possible that you might be able to set it in
/boot/loader.conf, as well, but I'm not too sure of this. See atkbd(4).
--
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