Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi: keyboard layout

[Erik Quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

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.
>
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