Help please - keyboard about jivelite HOT 11 CLOSED

Hi Marcus, Your issue is unclear to me. Does your non-us keyboard work or not when jivelite is running on the console?

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Hi Ralph

Thanks for responding. Within jivelite: only U.S. keyboard. When remotely logging in via ssh: german keyboard layout.

Marcus

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jivelite only reads keys from the console keyboard when using the framebuffer in pcp. Using ssh to control jivelite is not supported.

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that is a misunderstanding: jivelite is running within pCP, started from the console. I do not start / control it via ssh. When jivelite is started within console, I only have the US keyboard. When remotely logging in I have my German keys. Should I assume that the default console configuration is different from the shell configuration for ssh?

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Yes they are different.
When you connect using ssh you inherit the locale of the remote machine. pcp currently only supports the us keyboard from the console.

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Thanks for the quick responses! To understand correctly: no chance of modifying /etc/sysconfig/keyboard or similar tricks?

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sorry /etc/sysconfig/keymap of course

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There's no way that I'm aware.

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I just came across this while researching another keyboard issue.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#keyboard

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Hi, yes, I have seen that too. But the kmaps extension is not part of pCP. But in pCP there are under /usr/locale/share/keymaps keymap definitions. These can be dumped to the required binary format using the 'loadkeys -b' command to /usr/share/kmap. Then those can be loaded using loadkmap.
In order to make that persistent:
0. dump preferrably 'sudo gunzip /usr/locale/share/keymaps/WHATEVER.map.gz && sudo loadkeys -b /usr/locale/share/keymaps/WHATEVER.map > /usr/share/kmap/WHATEVER.kmap

1. Add the reference to the kmap file to /opt/.filetool.lst
2. Add a call to 'loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap' to /opt/bootlocal.sh
3. persist with 'sudo filetool.sh -b'
4. reboot
   seems to work

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Maybe should add that some of the maps are dependent. If for example you use de-latin1-nodeadkeys, you will have to gunzip the de-latin1 before, it seems

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