Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:23:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del once again Message-ID: <20010528211856.I257-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20010529095357.C54034@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :)On Monday, 28 May 2001 at 16:29:16 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: :)> :)> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :)> :)>>> On Sunday, 27 May 2001 at 21:30:23 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: :)>>>> :)>>>> I'd like to setup Ctrl-Alt-Del to do a "halt" instead :)>>>> of re-boot. Searching the archives I found a snipit :)>>>> that indicated that the following command should do it: :)>>>> :)> :)> <SNIP> :)> :)>>> :)>>> Yes. Assuming you're using the standard keyboard map :)>>> (/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd), make a copy with an :)>>> appropriate name and change the following line: :)>>> :)>>> Before: :)>>> :)>>> 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' boot boot N :)>>> :)>>> After: :)>>> :)>>> 083 del '.' '.' '.' '.' '.' halt halt N :)>>> :)>>> This is described in the man page kbdmap(5), which was only written a :)>>> few months ago. :)> :)> Nope, Doesn't work. I copied us.iso.kbd to us.iso.kbd_cwa. I made :)> the above changes to keycode 083. I then added "keymap=us.iso.kbd_cwa" :)> to my /etc/rc.conf file. Finally I re-booted. :) :)You shouldn't reboot for something so trivial. Just run kbdcontrol. :) :)> When my system came back up I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del expecting a "halt" to :)> be performed. Instead a "reboot" occurred, just as though I had :)> done nothing to the keymap file. :)> :)> Is there a way to determine if us.iso.kbd_cwa is even used? man kbdmap :)> shows nothing, :) :)How about this: :) :) -d Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout. The output may be :) redirected to a file and can be loaded back to the kernel later :) by the -l option above. :) :)> and I could find nothing in dmesg. :) :)No, you wouldn't. :) :)Greg I finally go it to work. I had to change keycode 103 NOT 083. >diff us.iso.kbd_cwa us.iso.kbd 109c109 < 103 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 halt fkey61 O --- > 103 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 boot fkey61 O Thanks for your help. -- -=[cwa]=- FreeBSD 4.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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