[syslinux] Syslinux keyboard mappings

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Thu Mar 23 09:27:50 PST 2006


On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:

> But the general problem is this, BIOSes are US qwerty, Belgium uses 
> be-latin1 (azerty with lots of custom keys). And to complicate the matter, 
> we're often logged on to Citrix and into some sort of remote java gui 
> console.
> 
> All of these complicate the issue (or at least do not improve it).
> 
> Now, somehow I hoped the solution would be fairly simple. Take the us.map, 
> take the be-latin1.map, create a be_latin.ktl out of it by running:
> 
> 	/usr/lib/syslinux/keytab-lilo.pl us.map be-latin1.map >be_latin1.ktl

Renaming this file from be_latin1.ktl to be.ktl fixed the issue (at least 
now the file is being used and some of the keys map correctly).

Bbut the numbers (pressed starting from 1 to 9 and 0 holding the SHIFT, as 
is required with azerty) map to this:

	!@#$%§^&*()

While pressing the same row without SHIFT results in the correct 
characters:

	&é"'(§è!çà)-

At least the ones that us qwerty doesn't have are printing another symbol, 
but that's fine. Fact is now that the numbers (when pressing SHIFT) are 
not returning numbers. Effectively blocking us from typing numbers :)

Also the uppercase characters (pressing AZQW with SHIFT) are also not 
mapped properly.

So I conclude that the mappings do not have any effect when you press 
SHIFT. (Which disables the use of numbers on Belgian keyboards when 
using kbdmap).

Can this be verified in the code ?

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]


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