Keymap issue (DSL 2.0 embedded)

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Keymap issue (DSL 2.0 embedded)
started by: frochet

Posted by frochet on Dec. 29 2005,15:13

Hello,
I tried DSL embedded, which is a famous idea ! Nice bundle of small debian running with Qemu.
Thanks for this tremendous work !

I have an issue when changing the keyboard (Not to change it, but when changing).

I start with dsl-2.0-embedded.zip, and uncompress it.
Then I launch dsl-windows.bat
It start, and the keyboard is qwerty US.
I launch the DSL panel, and choose fr-latin-1.
Then keyboard selector closes, I decide to backup the changes I've made. and restart using fluxbox menu.

When I restart, it fails to give me french keyboard.

Message:
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz
unknown keysym `Control_braceleft`
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz:18: syntax error
syntax error in map file
key binding not changed.

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I tried manually, and reproduce the problem
bash-2.05b# loadkeys fr-latin1
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz
unknown keysym `Control_braceleft`
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz:18: syntax error
syntax error in map file
key binding not changed.

bash-2.05b# loadkeys fr
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr-latin1.kmap.gz
bash-2.05b#

It seems the fr-latin1 keymap packaged in DSL 2.0 embedded is wrong ... All other fr** keyboard is fine.

latin1 is the only keymap that works well for french keyboard (Never used another one.)

Hope this will help for next release

Cheers
Fred

Posted by frochet on Dec. 30 2005,16:01

I finally used fr-pc using MyDSL/Keyboard, and restart DSL
The meyboard is working now, except 1 or 2 keys, by at least, I can get é, and keep /!\ available.
Fred