freebsd kernel developing

[Frank Shute]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:05:20PM +0200, siraj kutlusan wrote:
>
> i think you understood me wrong. i was looking for a girl for her
> interests not looks.

Yeah, that's what we all say ;)

I was largely joking though. All FreeBSDers require a laugh now & then.

> oh and i have been using FreeBSD for 1.5 years now but i havent been
> very serious with it. oh and i would like to reqest Turkish keyboard
> support on FreeBSD. As I am forced to use it here. I know other people
> have requested it for a while and i dont know why it isnt added
> instead of having to config it all. I could config it but what about
> the Turkish people that want to use FreeBSD for the first time and
> just want the turkish Q keyboard working straight away.

Basically with any unix you spend a few days getting it configured
which means sorting out your keyboard etc. Unless you buy a unix
machine off a vendor and even then you'd have to tweak it. 

I did my tweaking about 4-5 years ago on this machine. ie. Do it once
and forget about it. When you're more familiar with FreeBSD, you'll
find it fairly straightforward. When I have to do it again (when I get
my next machine), I'll just copy my tweaks over.

One tweak for you to map your Windows keys and F5 in the console to
something useful:

kbdcontrol -f 62 "sudo reboot"
kbdcontrol -f 64 "sudo halt -p"
kbdcontrol -f 5 "less "

and F5 in ~/.Xdefaults:

XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \
        <KeyPress>F5 : string("less ")

I suppose you could write a perl script to do all the necessary tweaks
sort of automagically when it's called. ie. It sorts out syscons(4)
via kbdcontrol(1), edits XF86Config, sets $TERM etc.

Something you could have a bash at if you're keen. It's worth learning
perl if you haven't already. It's a good language for sysadmin along
with shell. 

-- 

 Frank 


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