Author: matthew
Date: Mon Mar 4 13:46:36 2013
New Revision: 10192
Log:
Document how to configure the virtual console under Systemd.
Modified:
branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml
branches/systemd/BOOK/general.ent
Modified: branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Mon Mar 4 12:40:34
2013 (r10191)
+++ branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml Mon Mar 4 13:46:36
2013 (r10192)
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2013-03-04</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Document how to configure the virtual console under
+ Systemd.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2013-03-03</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml
==============================================================================
--- branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml Mon Mar 4 12:40:34 2013
(r10191)
+++ branches/systemd/BOOK/chapter07/console.xml Mon Mar 4 13:46:36 2013
(r10192)
@@ -15,16 +15,12 @@
<secondary>configuring</secondary>
</indexterm>
- <para>This section discusses how to configure the <command>console</command>
- bootscript that sets up the keyboard map, console font and console kernel log
- level. If non-ASCII characters (e.g., the copyright sign, the British pound
- sign and Euro symbol) will not be used and the keyboard is a U.S. one, much
- of this section can be skipped. Without the configuration file, (or
- equivalent settings in <filename>rc.site</filename>), the
- <command>console</command> bootscript will do nothing.</para>
+ <para>This section discusses how to configure the
+ <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> system service, which configures
+ the virtual console font and console keymap.</para>
- <para>The <command>console</command> script reads the
- <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file for configuration
+ <para>The <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> service reads the
+ <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file for configuration
information. Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various
language-specific HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>. If still in
@@ -33,203 +29,65 @@
<filename>setfont(8)</filename> manual pages to determine the correct
arguments for these programs.</para>
- <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file should contain
lines
+ <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file should contain lines
of the form: VARIABLE="value". The following variables are recognized:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term>LOGLEVEL</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This variable specifies the log level for kernel messages sent
- to the console as set by <command>dmesg</command>. Valid levels are
- from "1" (no messages) to "8". The default level is "7".</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
<term>KEYMAP</term>
<listitem>
- <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
- <command>loadkeys</command> program, typically, the name of keymap
- to load, e.g., <quote>es</quote>. If this variable is not set, the
- bootscript will not run the <command>loadkeys</command> program,
- and the default kernel keymap will be used.</para>
+ <para>This variable specifies the key mapping table for the keyboard.
If
+ unset, it defaults to <literal>us</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS</term>
+ <term>KEYMAP_TOGGLE</term>
<listitem>
- <para>This (rarely used) variable
- specifies the arguments for the second call to the
- <command>loadkeys</command> program. This is useful if the stock keymap
- is not completely satisfactory and a small adjustment has to be made.
E.g.,
- to include the Euro sign into a keymap that normally doesn't have it,
- set this variable to <quote>euro2</quote>.</para>
+ <para>This variable can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and
+ is unset by default.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>FONT</term>
<listitem>
- <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
- <command>setfont</command> program. Typically, this includes the font
- name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character
- map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font
- together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map
- (as it is appropriate in the USA),
- <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
- set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>.
- In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for
- conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus
- the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the
- composed key codes in the keymap.</para>
-
+ <para>This variable specifies the font used by the virtual
+ console.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>UNICODE</term>
+ <term>FONT_MAP</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Set this variable to <quote>1</quote>, <quote>yes</quote> or
- <quote>true</quote> in order to put the
- console into UTF-8 mode. This is useful in UTF-8 based locales and
- harmful otherwise.</para>
+ <para>This variable specifies the console map to be used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>LEGACY_CHARSET</term>
+ <term>FONT_UNIMAP</term>
<listitem>
- <para>For many keyboard layouts, there is no stock Unicode keymap in
- the Kbd package. The <command>console</command> bootscript will
- convert an available keymap to UTF-8 on the fly if this variable is
- set to the encoding of the available non-UTF-8 keymap.</para>
+ <para>This variable specifies the unicode font map.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>Some examples:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>For a non-Unicode setup, only the KEYMAP and FONT variables are
- generally needed. E.g., for a Polish setup, one would use:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
-
-KEYMAP="pl2"
-FONT="lat2a-16 -m 8859-2"
-
-# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>As mentioned above, it is sometimes necessary to adjust a
- stock keymap slightly. The following example adds the Euro symbol to the
- German keymap:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
+ <para>An example for a German keyboard and console is given below:</para>
-KEYMAP="de-latin1"
-KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
-FONT="lat0-16 -m 8859-15"
-
-# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The following is a Unicode-enabled example for Bulgarian, where a
- stock UTF-8 keymap exists:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
-
-UNICODE="1"
-KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
-FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
-
-# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Due to the use of a 512-glyph LatArCyrHeb-16 font in the previous
- example, bright colors are no longer available on the Linux console
unless
- a framebuffer is used. If one wants to have bright colors without
- framebuffer and can live without characters not belonging to his
language,
- it is still possible to use a language-specific 256-glyph font, as
- illustrated below:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
-
-UNICODE="1"
-KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
-FONT="cyr-sun16"
-
-# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/vconsole.conf << "EOF"
+<literal>KEYMAP=de-latin1
+FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from
- ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
-<literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
-
-UNICODE="1"
-KEYMAP="de-latin1"
-KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
-LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
-FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
-
-# End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
-EOF</userinput></screen>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Some keymaps have dead keys (i.e., keys that don't produce a
- character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced
- by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press
- Ctrl+. A E to get Æ</quote> in the default keymap).
- Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the
- keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together
- are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European
- languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
- characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
- UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
- sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>alpha</quote>.
- The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
- X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
- handling.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>For Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some other languages, the Linux
- console cannot be configured to display the needed characters. Users
- who need such languages should install the X Window System, fonts that
- cover the necessary character ranges, and the proper input method (e.g.,
- SCIM, it supports a wide variety of languages).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
<!-- Added because folks keep posting their console file with X questions
to blfs-support list -->
<note>
- <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file only controls
the Linux text console localization. It has nothing to do with setting the
- proper keyboard layout and terminal fonts in the X Window System, with ssh
- sessions or with a serial console. In such situations, limitations
mentioned
- in the last two list items above do not apply.</para>
+ <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file only controls
+ localization of the Linux text console. It has nothing to do with setting
+ the proper keyboard layout and terminal fonts in the X Window System, with
+ ssh sessions, or with a serial console.</para>
</note>
</sect1>
Modified: branches/systemd/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- branches/systemd/BOOK/general.ent Mon Mar 4 12:40:34 2013 (r10191)
+++ branches/systemd/BOOK/general.ent Mon Mar 4 13:46:36 2013 (r10192)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SYSTEMD-20130303">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "March 3, 2013">
+<!ENTITY version "SYSTEMD-20130304">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "March 4, 2013">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2013"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not
– -->
<!ENTITY milestone "7.3">
<!ENTITY generic-version "systemd"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or
"x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
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