[arch-general] KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard

[Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:41 AM, didier gaumet
<didier.gaumet at libertysurf.fr>wrote:

> KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am presently using an up-to-date Archlinux on a laptop with an Intel
> 915 chipset.
> In the past I have tried KMS succesfully to a certain extent: for
> example the french letter "é" is not correctly displayed when I type it
> in console althought it is correctly displayed under X11. Apart from
> this, all seems to function perfectly.
> With the same setup in /etc/rc.conf there is no problem to type and
> display "é" in console if KMS is disabled.
>
> I was thinking this to be a lack of maturity of KMS, but I just tried
> KMS on a Slackware 13.0 (2.6.29 stock kernel) freshly installed on the
> same laptop: definitely no problem.
>
> Any hint?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Didier.
>
> From my /etc/rc.conf:
> [...]
> LOCALE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
> USEDIRECTISA="no"
> TIMEZONE="Europe/Paris"
> #KEYMAP="fr-latin9"
> KEYMAP="fr-pc"
> CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"
>
> CONSOLEMAP="8859-1_to_uni,8859-15_to_uni,cp1250_to_uni,cp437_to_uni,cp850_to_uni"
>

Try remove the CONSOLEMAP
Like that
[...]
LOCALE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="America/Sao_Paulo"
KEYMAP="br-abnt2"
CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
[...]

Here is working very well.


> [...]
>
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