NAME
keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [-p 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 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; this can be found in
/usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.
April 1998 KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)