On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:30:35PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is your keyboard an USB one? I observe the same with an USB keyboard.
- keyboard.encoding=us.swapctrlcaps has no effect (in
/etc/wsconsctl.conf)
These settings only affect the _first_ keyboard in the system
(wskbd0). Unfortunately, for a PC that is usually the PS/2 keyboard,
even if none is plugged in.
This is a box that has *no* PS/2 connectors any more.
But it still has a PS/2 keyboard controller. Check your dmesg. It
probably includes something like this:
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
You're right:
$ grep pckb /var/run/dmesg.boot
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
$
That's quite unfortunate though if you can't affect the non-X11 keyboard
mapping of secondary keyboards at all.
Thats not correct.
/sbin/kbd will change keyboard settings on ALL keyboards that has
support for the requested keyboard map.
wsconsctl has -f which allows you select which keyboard you are applying
the change to. For keyboard operations /dev/wskbd0 is default if not
specified.
read the man page!
(And btw, in X11, somehow the setup of the keyboard mapping from
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is delayed, since about mid-December 2007. Before,
the mapping from there, and from a few xmodmap settings loaded in
.xinitrc, took effect immediately when X was up from startx, now it
takes quite some time, perhaps half a minute or so, for them to take
effect. Related to X11 privsep changes? Later changes using setxkbmap
take effect immediately, btw.)
It will always take the mapping from xorg.conf if it is defined there.
If no keyboard language is specified X11 will now make a guess depending
on which keyboard layout wscons has. But since X11 is reading the keyboard
raw any change made to wscons after X11 is started doesn't change anything
in X11.
-moj
Kind regards,
Hannah.
