From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40807161521x2f9fe9c3n394058bccc5d127@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:21:09 +0200 From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <487E5E18.1020106@ntlworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <487CFED2.5080908@ntlworld.com> <8ccc8ba40807151259wb0c7dbdjf189f1b73ea4bae2@mail.gmail.com> <487E5E18.1020106@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard Topicbox-Message-UUID: e8f530ba-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I think you need to add the map to the kernel, as a root file so that boot could find it before reaching the file server. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert Hibberdine wrote: > Thanks for reply. > > putting kbmap=uk into plan9.ini > gives a message > > boot: can't open kbd map: 'uk' file does not exist. > > So I tried kbmap=/sys/lib//kbmap/uk in plan9.ini This didn't work > either. I got the message > > boot: can't open kbd map: 'sys' file does not exist. > > Not sure what the next step is, so any help is much appreciated > > Bob > > > > Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: >> >> IIRC, putting kbmap=uk >> in plan9.ini should work. >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Robert Hibberdine >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap >>> but >>> this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do >>> >>> kbmap /sys/lib/kbmap/uk >>> >>> it still acts in an interactive manner. Is this right? >>> >>> A qick glance at the code reveals that >>> cp /sys/lib/kbmap/uk /dev/kbmap (put into my >>> lib/profile) >>> >>> should work too, and it does. But is this the 'correct' way to do it? >>> I >>> just want my keyboard to be the right one when when my terminal windows >>> start. >>> >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > >