installing for non-us kbd

[Shaun Oliver]

Kirk? why doesn't he write an executeable script to do just that?
I did that here with a few commands I wanted to perform quickly like
mounting my partners drives on her machine.


Shaun..
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On 29 May 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Saqib:  The best thing to do is install with the u.s. keyboard for
> speakup.  When you are finished take a diff against the standard
> u.s. keyboard with the speakupmap.map which you can get from
> www.linux-speakup.org if you are not compiling your own kernel.  Cp
> the speakupmap to the directory where the standard maps are kept and
> type this:
> 
> diff -urN speakup.map standard.map >map.diff
> 
> Fill in the standard.map with the name of the map for the us
> keyboard.  Then cp a copy of the uk.map to the standard map and type:
> 
> patch -p0 <map.diff
> 
> that should patch the new copy with your just taken map.  You can then
> cp the new map back to whatever it was originally called.  I think
> this is the easiest way to accomplish this.  You will then need to
> type:
> 
> loadkeys new.map
> 
> to load the newly patched map.  Replacing new.map with whatever you
> called your patched map.
> 
> good luck.
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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