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<A title=clfs@jg555.com href="mailto:clfs@jg555.com">Jim Gifford</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 31, 2009 4:23
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Clfs-support] Keyboard If
You Are Going to Boot</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>John wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>In clfs 1.0.0-x86 7.11.
Linux-2.6.17.13<BR>there was an interesting idea of compiling<BR>the
keyboard map into the kernel with</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>loadkeys -m [path to keymap] >
\<BR> drivers/char/defkeymap.c</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This has been exclude from <BR>clfs
1.1.0-rc1-x86 7.10. Linux-2.6.24.7</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone know why? Was it not successful?<BR>What
is the alternative now?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a ticket #56 in Track but I do<BR>not
understand the reasoning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John<BR>John Walton</FONT></DIV><PRE wrap=""><HR width="90%" SIZE=4></PRE>_______________________________________________Clfs-support mailing
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<DIV>You don't need the keymap built into the kernel, kbd handles all those
functions, without modifying the kernel.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, but kbd is not installed until
10.38.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I should be able to boot at the end of chapter
7.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
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