NAME¶
keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO
SYNOPSIS¶
/usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [
-p R old_code = new_code ] ...
[
default_layout]
kbd_layout
DESCRIPTION¶
keytab-lilo is a program which compiles keytable definitions (in the
format specified in
keytables(5)) into a format which can be used by
lilo(8) to set the keyboard type when booting [using the
keytable parameter in
/etc/lilo.conf].
kbd_layout should be the name of a map file which specifies the desired
keyboard layout. This file may be a
gzip(1) compressed map. If no file
extension is given,
.map.gz is assumed. If the full pathname is not
specified,
/usr/share/keymaps/ is assumed.
Since
lilo essentially needs to know the differences between the BIOS
keyboard mapping and the one you require, the
default_layout file
should contain a
keytables(5) file for the BIOS default mapping. If no
default_layout file is specified,
us.map.gz is used.
keytab-lilo writes the output translation table as a binary string to
standard output, so you should redirect it to a suitable file.
lilo has
no particular restrictions on the name of keyboard translation files, but the
suggested naming convention and location is
/boot/mapping.ktl (where
.ktl stands for
"Keyboard Table for Lilo").
OPTIONS¶
- -p
- R old_code = new_code
Specifies corrections ("patches") to the mapping obtained from the
translation table files. E.g. if pressing the upper case "A"
should yield an at sign, -p 65=64 would be used. The -p option can be
repeated any number of times. The codes can also be given as hexadecimal
or as octal numbers if they are prefixed with 0x or 0, respectively.
EXAMPLES¶
- keytab-lilo dvorak >/boot/dvorak.ktl
-
This is the most common form of invocation; it simply compiles the given map
file (in this case dvorak) and puts the result in /boot/dvorak.ktl.
AUTHOR¶
Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch).
Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO¶
lilo(8),
keytables(5),
gzip(1)
lilo comes with extensive documentation which can be found in
/usr/share/doc/lilo-doc/ on Debian-based systems.