Hi, I have a laptop with a broken keyboard (g, h and several vital symbols are untypeable). I previously had Red Hat 5.2 on this machine and had configured the keyboard into a usable state by editing a file called uk.map (the laptop has a uk keyboard layout). This file had entries like:
keycode 33 = f keycode 34 = g ... I was able to add lines like: control keycode 33 = g shift control keycode 33 = G control keycode 36 = h shift control keycode 36 = H ... This enabled me to type g by pressing Ctrl+F and h by Ctrl+J, and worked pretty well. By experimentation, I've found that a debian system can load such a file by using "loadkeys" - eg "loadkeys uk.map". I have a couple of problems with this approach: - A few of the mappings don't seem to have taken effect: Debian still seems to think that Ctrl+J is newline, although Ctrl+F works fine to print a "G". Also it doesn't seem to have honored the mapping of AltGr (right alt on a UK keyboard) to regular Alt (needed because my left alt key is one of the broken ones). - I need to make this happen on every boot, so I'd have to put it in an init.d script. That's hacky. - It doesn't seem to be the "debian way" to do such things. I'd rather stick to the debian way if I can so as not to be broken by future upgrades. Does anyone know the debian way to do this, or at least what I can do to workaround the "Ctrl+J is always newline" problem. Thanks, Stuart.
