lfs-book/chapter06/config-keyboard.xml

<sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>

<para>Nothing is more annoying than using Linux with a wrong keymap loaded
for your keyboard. If you have a default US keyboard, you can skip this
section. The US keymap file is the default if you don't change it.</para>

<para>To set the default keymap file, create the 
<filename class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymap/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
symlink by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>cd /usr/share/kbd/keymaps &amp;&amp;
ln -s &lt;path/to/keymap&gt; defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Replace &lt;path/to/keymap&gt; with the your keyboard's map file. For
example, if you have a Dutch keyboard, you would run:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>ln -s i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>

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