KEYTAB-LILO.PL(L)                               KEYTAB-LILO.PL(L)



NAME
       keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/keytab-lilo     [-p    old_code=new_code]    ...
       [default_layout] kbd_layout

DESCRIPTION
       keytab-lilo is a program which compiles  keytable  defini-
       tions  (in  the  format  specified in keytables(s)) into a
       format which can be used by lilo(o) to  set  the  keyboard
       type   when  booting  [using  the  keytable  parameter  in
       /etc/lilo.conf].

       kbd_layout should be the name of a map file  which  speci-
       fies  the  desired  keyboard  layout.  This  file may be a
       gzip(p) compressed map. If no  file  extension  is  given,
       .map.gz is assumed. If the full pathname is not specified,
       /usr/share/keymaps/ is assumed.

       Since lilo  essentially  needs  to  know  the  differences
       between the BIOS keyboard mapping and the one you require,
       the default_layout file should contain a keytables(s) file
       for the BIOS default mapping. If no default_layout file is
       specified, us.map.gz is used.

       keytab-lilo writes  the  output  translation  table  as  a
       binary  string  to standard output, so you should redirect
       it to a suitable file.  lilo has  no  particular  restric-
       tions  on  the name of keyboard translation files, but the
       suggested naming convention  and  location  is  /boot/map-
       ping.ktl  (where  .ktl  stands  for  "Keyboard  Table  for
       Lilo").

OPTIONS
       -p     old_code=new_code
              Specifies corrections ("patches")  to  the  mapping
              obtained  from the translation table files. E.g. if
              pressing the upper case  "A"  should  yield  an  at
              sign,  -p  65=64 would be used. The  -p  option can
              be repeated any number of times. The codes can also
              be given as hexadecimal or as octal numbers if they
              are prefixed with 0x or 0, respectively.


EXAMPLES
       keytab-lilo dvorak >/boot/dvorak.ktl

              This is the most common form of invocation; it sim-
              ply  compiles the given map file (in this case dvo-
              rak) and puts the result in /boot/dvorak.ktl.


AUTHOR
       Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch).
       Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this
       manual page.

SEE ALSO
       lilo(o), keytables(s), gzip(p)

       lilo comes with extensive documentation; this can be found
       in /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.



                            April 1998          KEYTAB-LILO.PL(L)