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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
10
11 <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
14 <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard
21 utilities.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
27
[1da2a84]28 <para os="s1">While installing Kbd the Makefile will attempt to execute
29 install with the strip option on all of the installed files. This will
30 create errors when installing shell scripts. Prevent the strip argument
31 from being passed to install with the following command:</para>
32
33<screen os="s2"><userinput>sed -i "/install -s/s/ -s//" src/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
34
35 <para os="aa">The Kbd tarball does not include a pre-generated configure
36 script. Generate it with the following command:</para>
37
38<screen os="ab"><userinput>autoconf</userinput></screen>
39
[e0e40d3]40 <para os="a">Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
[3f8be484]41
[1da2a84]42<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]43
[f343234]44 <variablelist os="c">
45 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
[3f8be484]46
[f343234]47 <varlistentry>
48 <term><parameter>--datadir</parameter></term>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>This option places the Kbd data and keymap files into /lib/kbd,
51 as they are used by some of the scripts in the CLFS-Bootscripts
52 package and must be on the root partition.</para>
53 </listitem>
54 </varlistentry>
[3f8be484]55
[f343234]56 </variablelist>
[3f8be484]57
[f343234]58 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[d1631d1]59
[f343234]60<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]61
[f343234]62 <para os="f">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
63
64 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
65
66<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
67
68 <para os="i">Some of the programs from Kbd are used by scripts
[e990cbd9]69 in the CLFS-Bootscripts package. As <filename
70 class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the early
71 stages of booting, those binaries need to be on the root partition:</para>
72
[f343234]73<screen os="j"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{kbd_mode,openvt,setfont} /bin</userinput></screen>
[e990cbd9]74
[3f8be484]75 </sect2>
76
77 <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
78 <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
79
80 <segmentedlist>
81 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
82
83 <seglistitem>
[34b5ae2]84 <seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, kbd_mode,
85 kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap, mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable
[3f8be484]86 (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to psfxtable), psfstriptable
87 (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons, setfont, setkeycodes,
[34b5ae2]88 setleds, setmetamode, showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start, and
89 unicode_stop</seg>
[3f8be484]90 </seglistitem>
91 </segmentedlist>
92
93 <variablelist>
94 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
95 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
96 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
97
98 <varlistentry id="chvt">
99 <term><command>chvt</command></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
102 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
103 <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
104 </indexterm>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
109 <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
112 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
113 <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
114 </indexterm>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
119 <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
122 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
123 <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
124 </indexterm>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127
128 <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
129 <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
133 <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
134 </indexterm>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
139 <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
142 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
143 <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
144 </indexterm>
145 </listitem>
146 </varlistentry>
147
148 <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
149 <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
152 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
153 <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
154 </indexterm>
155 </listitem>
156 </varlistentry>
157
158 <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
159 <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
162 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
163 <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
164 </indexterm>
165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
169 <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
172 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
173 <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
174 </indexterm>
175 </listitem>
176 </varlistentry>
177
178 <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
179 <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
180 <listitem>
181 <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
182 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
183 <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
184 </indexterm>
185 </listitem>
186 </varlistentry>
187
188 <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
189 <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
192 character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
193 by <command>setfont</command></para>
194 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
195 <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
196 </indexterm>
197 </listitem>
198 </varlistentry>
199
200 <varlistentry id="openvt">
201 <term><command>openvt</command></term>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
204 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
205 <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
206 </indexterm>
207 </listitem>
208 </varlistentry>
209
210 <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
211 <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
212 <listitem>
213 <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
214 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
215 <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
216 </indexterm>
217 </listitem>
218 </varlistentry>
219
220 <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
221 <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
222 <listitem>
223 <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
224 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
225 <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
226 </indexterm>
227 </listitem>
228 </varlistentry>
229
230 <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
231 <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
234 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
235 <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
239
240 <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
241 <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
244 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
245 <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
246 </indexterm>
247 </listitem>
248 </varlistentry>
249
250 <varlistentry id="resizecons">
251 <term><command>resizecons</command></term>
252 <listitem>
253 <para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
254 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons">
255 <primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary>
256 </indexterm>
257 </listitem>
258 </varlistentry>
259
260 <varlistentry id="setfont">
261 <term><command>setfont</command></term>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
264 Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
265 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
266 <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
272 <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
275 useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
276 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
277 <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
278 </indexterm>
279 </listitem>
280 </varlistentry>
281
282 <varlistentry id="setleds">
283 <term><command>setleds</command></term>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
286 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
287 <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
288 </indexterm>
289 </listitem>
290 </varlistentry>
291
292 <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
293 <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
296 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
297 <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
303 <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
306 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
307 <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="showkey">
313 <term><command>showkey</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
316 pressed on the keyboard</para>
317 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
318 <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
319 </indexterm>
320 </listitem>
321 </varlistentry>
322
323 <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
324 <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on
[fb40919]327 CLFS, because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para>
[3f8be484]328 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
329 <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
330 </indexterm>
331 </listitem>
332 </varlistentry>
333
334 <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
335 <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
338 <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
339 <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 </variablelist>
345
346 </sect2>
347
348</sect1>
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