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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi: keyboard layout
Date: Sun,  2 Dec 2012 17:08:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203010858.AFADFB827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:45:29 GMT." <50BBF629.5020609@gmail.com>

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:45:29 GMT Murray Colpman <muzerakascooby@gmail.com>  wrote:
> When I run the kbmap program, attempting to set a map flashes up an
> error about not being able to find /dev/kbmap. Looking at the manpages,
> it seems that /dev/kbmap is supposed to be brought in with bind -a
> '#kappa' /dev (with kappa obviously replaced with the actual kappa
> letter). I did snarf the kappa from the manpage, and I also tried typing
> it on the keyboard in various ways (compose, *, k for instance), so I
> don't think that the issue is that I'm unable to type kappa correctly.
> Anyway, when I run this bind command, I get "bind: #kappa: unknown
> device in # filename" (again, kappa replaced with the actual kappa).

You need to compile the driver in.  Add
	kbmap
to the dev section in config file /sys/src/9/bcm/pi.  mk and
then copy 9pi to the dos partition.

	dossrv -f /dev/sdM0/dos
	mount -c /sv/dos /n/dos
	cp /sys/src/9/bcm/9pi /n/dos/9pi
	fshalt



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-03  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-03  0:45 Murray Colpman
2012-12-03  1:08 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2012-12-03  1:33   ` Murray Colpman
2012-12-03  2:10     ` Christopher Wilson
2012-12-03  9:42     ` Richard Miller
2012-12-03 16:44       ` Murray Colpman
2012-12-03 17:00         ` Richard Miller
2012-12-03 19:38           ` Chris Wilson
2012-12-04  1:52             ` Bakul Shah
2012-12-04  2:41               ` erik quanstrom
2012-12-03 16:23     ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-12-03 16:48       ` Richard Miller
2012-12-04 14:10       ` Christian Neukirchen
2012-12-03  0:57 Erik Quanstrom
2012-12-03  1:05 ` Murray Colpman

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