>On 18.IV.2004 at 13:27 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote: >> >> The main challenge here, as I understand it, is that d-i basically uses >> console-data's paradigm for keyboard description. So what we need is a >> gigantic mapping table in xserver-xfree86.config to translate >> console-data keyboard descriptions into XKB >> Rules/Model/Layout(/Variant?) tuples. > >The package console-cyrillic does the oposite for the Cyrillic >languages. This package is simply an inteligent wrapper arount >`consolechars' and `loadkeys'. It provides the Linux console with >flexible keyboard configuration similar to what xkb provides to X >Window. > >It is possible to extend the functionality of console-cyrillic to >cover non-Cyrillic languages, but this would require manual conversion >of the files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols to another format. > >Anton Zinoviev
One of my post-sarge TODO items for console-tools is to implement xkb keyboard parsing in loadkeys (using X11 libraries). Then merging the two keymap sets, with the X ones being definitive (ie removing separate keymaps for the console). So I would prefer to have the table in console-data and have kbd-chooser / prebaseconfig seed the debconf database for X11. Any comments? What debconf entries would need to be set? - Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
