Grant wrote:
> My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I
> press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen.  I
> changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:
>
> KEYMAP="es"
>
> and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed.
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> - Grant
You also need to add the keymaps init script to your boot runlevel

rc-update add keymaps boot

So that updates my keymap for the console?  It must default to "us" then?

- Grant
As far as I am informed the keymaps init script sets the console keymap to the value of the KEYMAP variable.

Cheers,
Jay

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