[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#633622: remap doesn't take effect

[Volkan YAZICI]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:15:26 +0200, Michael Schutte writes:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 08:41:06AM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>>   $ . /etc/default/keyboard
>>   $ diff <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT") \
>>   >      <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" ctrl:nocaps)
>>   59c59
>>   < keycode 58 = CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock ...
>>   ---
>>   > keycode 58 = Control Control Control Control Control Control ...
>> 
>> But pay attention that, above output is taken from the machine where I
>> manually set "keycode 58" in /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz to a
>> sequence of "Control"s.
>
> ckbcomp doesn’t look at the cached keymap itself, so this seems entirely
> correct to me.  What happens immediately after you run “setupcon --save”
> (which will replace /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz), and then after
> rebooting?

Now it appears to be working. And "stat cached.kmap.gz" tells me that
the file is modified just after "setupcon --save". So what was missing?