Re: azerty, fr or fr-pc keyboard layout with grub 2.06

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 02.03.2022 19:33, Pascal wrote:
> the file generated by the grub-kbdcomp command is finally functional : it
> was me who did not modify terminal_input (as you point out, thanks).
> 
> I encountered two difficulties when using it :
> - I first used the terminal_input --append at_keyboard command and I found
> myself with a keyboard that automagically switched between FR and US. (it's
> quite confusing ;-)
> - when I start qemu with the -nodefaults option, the terminal_input
> at_keyboard command freezes the virtual machine
> 

Exactly. at_keyboard is really intended for bare metal environment
without BIOS.

I do not know if BIOS supports international keyboard layout. It may be
possible to remap ASCII characters. Someone needs to implement it.

> regards, lacsaP.
> 
> Le mer. 2 mars 2022 à 17:02, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> a
> écrit :
> 
>> Le 02/03/2022 à 14:42, Pascal a écrit :
>>>
>>> do any of you have a working .gkb file that can switch the keyboard
>> layout
>>> to azerty, fr or fr-pc ?
>>
>> I do, but gave up using it because I found it not stable enough.
>>
>>> I tried to generate one with the grub-mklayout and grub-kbcomp tools, but
>>> the file produced does not switch the keyboard layout when used with the
>>> keymap command (nb. no warning or error message is displayed).
>>
>> Did you switch terminal_input to at_keyboard or usb_keyboard first ?
>> Keymaps do not work with the default console input.
>>
>>