Re: [tlug] Invalid scancodes on the console!

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 30/01/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> $ su; cd /etc; mv default.kmap.gz default.kmap.gz.bak
> $ cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/jp106.kmap.gz default.kmap.gz
>
> is the basic principle.  I don't recommend doing the above except as a
> very last resort (among other things, that's a Debian path that
> probably doesn't work on Fedora, and the default.kmap probably doesn't
> live in /etc, either).  However, Fedora probably has a special tool to
> do this, for a number of reasons (having to do with include keymaps
> and early boot sequence issues).  On Debian this tool is called
> `install-keymap'.

The Red Hat Way would seem to be:

sudo redhat-config-keyboard

which will, if in X, launch a GTK+ application, or a ncurses one from
the console. You can just select "Japanese" from the menu.

-Josh