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Keyboard on ~Current: Agetty consoles stuck on en_US.

After the cleanest of clean installs, I'm trying to restore some semblance of normality to my setup. I'm running on ~Current of 2024-03-22 and Willysr's Mate in X.

The en_US keyboard defaults EVERYWHERE are a bugbear for the rest of the world. At the moment, I'm defaulting to runlevel 4 and have a modified to an Irish keyboard set up with things like a € sign, math symbols Gaelic accents etc. that I maintain myself. I'm using en_IE@euro locale.

But if I hit Ctrl_Alt_F2, and go to runlevel 3 consoles, I seem to have some US key mapping installed.There's no keyboard module that I can find; Neither is there a setting in /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/, rc.local. Anything that I can find now is configured en_IE@euro. But the keyboard still does Shift_2 = @, I’ve no euro sign. Where 'apostrophe & @' should be (Right of ‘;&:’ key, which is right of ‘l&L’) my consoles give me ” How do I purge my consoles of en_US settings? I have done a couple of complete reboots to purge any stored values, and can't find anything else to change.

Have you configured /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap ?

I customise mine a little here. I use this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh



# Stop the kernel complaining about unknown keys for the 

# brightness up/down keys on a HP Pavilion laptop.

# (Ensure the keycode (239) is mapped to VoidSymbol in 

# the mapfile.



/usr/bin/setkeycodes e02b 239



# Load the console keyboard map. 

if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys -a -f /etc/keymap.map ]; then

  /usr/bin/loadkeys /etc/keymap.map

fi

Then in /etc/keymap.map, I have:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/loadkeys 

#

#  This file will be processed by loadkeys, invoked by

#  /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap during system initialisation.

#  



# Include the standard British layout qwerty PC keymap:

include "/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map"



# Add the European currency 'euro' symbol to AltGr-4:

altgr keycode  5 = euro



# Add the cent symbol to AltGr-c:

altgr keycode  46 = cent



# Make Ctrl-/ send Control_underscore (for emacs undo key):

control keycode 53 = Control_underscore



# Make control-shift-minus send control_underscore (also emacs):

#control keycode 12 = minus

control shift keycode 12 = Control_underscore



# My HP Pavilion laptop generates an additional scancodes when

# the brightness up/down keys are pressed. 

keycode 239 = VoidSymbol



# Prevent the backlight brightness up/down function keys generating

# characters (acpi will handle them):

#keycode 224 = VoidSymbol

#keycode 225 = VoidSymbol



# Prevent the mute, volumedown, volumeup function keys generating

# characters (acpi will handle them):

# keycode 113 = VoidSymbol

# keycode 114 = VoidSymbol

# keycode 115 = VoidSymbol

I prefer doing it this way: using the include and then my own modifications in /etc/keymap.map.

BTW, if you compile your own kernel you can embed your chosen keymap into it as a default. I do that on my crux install, but on Slackware I use Pat's kernels.

Nope. ;redface:

Thanks for the rapid reply. It actually works. You might try the 'ie' map because it's nearly identical and of course, has the *€ sign (AltGr_4), seeing as that's our currency.

What I'd like to know is how you got the keycode nymbers for the keys you were reassigning?

There's a command called 'showkey" that will show you the keycodes/scancodes for the various buttons when you push them.

"dumpkeys" is useful too.

Thanks. I actually just stuck a line in rc.local, because what you did sounded like work. The default is fine for me.