On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 07:32:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > Should I add one additional question or preseeding is enough? > > No, you need to implement automatic detection for this case. > > Please see kbd-chooser.c. It's not all that hard to find the code, nor > should it be all that hard to implement it in C. See also the 90console > script in finish-install.
I didn't known that such detection is possible. No C is required in order to detect the presence of a physical keyboard - the following shell code does the trick: tests=...... if grep "$tests" /proc/bus/input/devices /proc/bus/usb/devices >/dev/null; then # there is a keyboard else # there is no keyboard fi The detection of the serial console requires an ioctl but I think console-setup-udeb doesn't need to know whether the console is serial or not. I have some questions: 1. Can console-setup-udeb expect that /proc is mounted? Is there some dependency about this? 2. Can console-setup-udeb expect that /proc/bus/usb is mounted? Is there some dependency about this? 3. If the answer of 1 or 2 is no, then what can be done? 4. Are there architectures where kernel <=2.4 is used? The detection doesn't work for such kernels. 5. What about the following scenario: the system is installed without a keyboard, console-setup-udeb leaves the keyboard unconfigured and then the user attaches a keyboard. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
