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<sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>
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-<para>Nothing is more annoying than using Linux with a wrong keymap loaded
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-for your keyboard. If you have a default US keyboard, you can skip this
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-section. The US keymap file is the default if you don't change it.</para>
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+<para>Few things are more annoying than using Linux while a wrong keymap
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+for your keyboard is loaded. If you have a standard US keyboard, however, you
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+can skip this section, as the US keymap is the default as long as you don't
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+change it.</para>
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-<para>To set the default keymap file, create the
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+<para>To change the default keymap, create the
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<filename class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
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-symlink by running the following commands:</para>
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+symlink by running the following command:</para>
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-<para><screen><userinput>ln -s <path/to/keymap> /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>
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+<para><screen><userinput>ln -s path/to/keymap /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>
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-<para>Replace <path/to/keymap> with the your keyboard's map file. For
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-example, if you have a Dutch keyboard, you would run:</para>
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+<para>Of course, replace <filename>path/to/keymap</filename> with the path and
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+name of your keyboard's map file. For example, if you have a Dutch keyboard,
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+you would use <filename>i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz</filename>.</para>
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-<para><screen><userinput>ln -s i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>
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+<para>Another way to set your keyboard's layout is to compile the keymap
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+into the kernel. This ensures that your keyboard will always work as expected,
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+even when you boot into maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the
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+kernel), as then the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
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-<para>A second option to configure your keyboard's layout is to compile
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-the keymap directly into the kernel. This will make sure that your
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-keyboard always works as expected, even when you have booted into
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-maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel), in which case
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-the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
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-
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-<para>Run the following command to patch the correct keymap into the
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+<para>Run the following command to patch the current default keymap into the
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kernel source. You will have to repeat this command whenever you unpack a
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new kernel:</para>
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Gerard Beekmans