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.
