Bug#623975: grub2: Add support for setkey!

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 28.04.2011 17:57, Garrett McLean wrote:
> Good news! I figured out what I was missing was
> "GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT=at_keyboard" in /etc/default/grub BUT I have one
> last issue, which is cosmetic but kind of a big deal:
>
> Whenever I use the arrow keys the screen is flooded with messages like
> "Unknown key 0xe0+0xaa from set 1" which makes it hard to edit the
> menu items (though at least I stand a fighting chance with Dvorak on
> my side!).
>
Upstream I downgraded it into a debug message (printed only if debug is
enabled)
> Thanks!
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Garrett McLean <gmclean at gmail.com
> <mailto:gmclean at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Colin!
>
>     Just upgraded to the latest grub2 and tried your suggestion out.
>     It didn't work :( Here's what I did with one note that may help:
>
>     1. Upgrade to latest grub2
>     2. sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/layouts
>     3. ckbcomp us dvorak | sudo grub-mklayout -o
>     /boot/grub/layouts/us:dvorak.gkb NOTE: When I ran this command it
>     spat back "Unknown keycode 0x79" at me, which I'm sure is the
>     problem (just not sure how to find it).
>     4. sudo update-grub
>     5. sudo reboot
>
>     I couldn't find good documentation in /usr/share/doc/grub*, nor in
>     the man/info pages for grub-mklayout, nor on Google (and the grub
>     wiki appears to be down) so I really have no clue what to do for a
>     next step.
>
>     Thanks,
>     -Garrett
>
>     On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org
>     <mailto:cjwatson at debian.org>> wrote:
>
>         On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:24:40PM -0700, Garrett McLean wrote:
>         > Please add support for setkey! Without it I am forced to use
>         a QWERTY layout
>         > if I want to edit menu entries in grub (pressing 'e' at the
>         menu). This is
>         > super annoying as a Dvorak user.
>
>         It almost certainly isn't going to be backported to squeeze,
>         but the
>         version in sid has grub-mklayout and grub-kbdcomp utilities.
>          You can do
>         something like this (untested):
>
>          sudo mkdir -p /boot/grub/layouts
>          ckbcomp us dvorak | sudo grub-mklayout -o
>         /boot/grub/layouts/us:dvorak.gkb
>
>         ... and then add this command to /boot/grub/custom.cfg:
>
>          keymap us:dvorak
>
>         Hopefully we'll get this a bit more neatly integrated in future.
>
>         --
>         Colin Watson                                      
>         [cjwatson at debian.org <mailto:cjwatson at debian.org>]
>
>
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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