Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi: keyboard layout

[Murray Colpman <muzerakascooby@gmail.com>]

Thanks. Is it likely to be in some form of module, then (does Plan 9
have those?) that I have to manually load, or would I have to recompile
the whole kernel to get it?

In /sys/src/9/port/ there is a devkbmap.c so presumably I would want to
make sure that file gets compiled in. If I will need to recompile the
kernel, is /sys/src/9/port actually the source for the kernel that is
included in the distribution? How do I configure the kernel to include
this part?

Thanks,
Murray Colpman.

On 03/12/12 00:57, Erik Quanstrom wrote:
> I'd guess the kernel doesn't have that device built in.
>
> - erik
>
>
> Murray Colpman <muzerakascooby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm an absolute beginner to Plan 9, I just installed it on my Raspberry
>> Pi for fun to have a see what it's all about. I understand this being a
>> very new build there are likely to be some issues, so do know that I'm
>> not holding my not-so-smooth experience against Plan 9 ;)
>>
>> After a lot of wrangling with getting it compatible with my custom boot
>> menu (actually a very hacky Linux binary that shoves the necessary
>> config files into the Raspberry Pi boot partition and reboots, each OS
>> having to manually put the boot menu config files back in place on
>> boot), helped by some very nice people in #plan9 on Freenode, I now move
>> onto the other problems.
>>
>> The biggest one for me, being a Dvorak user, is that I cannot get the
>> keyboard layouts working. I'm starting to form a vague idea in my head
>> about how Plan 9 is working, but I probably have a lot of things wrong,
>> so do bear with me.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Murray Colpman.
>>
>>