Hi The following text is from a file in the Speakup directory called README-generic-speakup.map: The following text explains how I successfully patched a UK key-map with Speakup's generic key-map on Debian and a Slackware 8 system, during December 2001, while logged in as root. I didn't know if users would have the necessary privileges. The dependent files, applications and utilities were: * The "cat" command, to concatenate files. * gzip compression utility to uncompress and compress the key-map file. * The console-tools to provide key-maps and to load the new key-map with its loadkeys utility. * The generic-speakup.map from the Speakup directory of the Speakup site, (See the URL below). Here's how I did it on a Debian (Woody) system: I entered the commands as given below and press return after completing each line. cp generic-speakup.map /usr/share/keymap/i386/qwerty/ cd /usr/share/keymap/i386/qwerty/ gunzip uk.kmap.gz cat generic-speakup.map >> uk.kmap gzip uk.kmap loadkeys uk End of the command line entries I used for the Debian key-map patch: Although some of the command line entries appear to be quite long I used the tab key to auto complete some of the strings. Here's how I patched the UK map for Slackware 8. It is virtually the same as for the Debian process but the path is slightly different: cp generic-speakup.map /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ cd /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ gunzip uk.kmap.gz cat generic-speakup.map >> uk.kmap gzip uk.kmap loadkeys uk End of the command line entries I used for Slackware: While I've used the UK key-map, the same routine should work for any other non-us key-map that comes with the console-tools package that is installed by most distributions. Should you have any questions about using a non-us key-map please raise them with the Speakup e-mail list, or visit the SpeakFreely reflector see: http://linux-speakup.org for details of these routes of support. You can contact me by sending a e-mail post to gena at gena-j.net and I'll attempt to answer any questions I can but I'm just a blundering beginner. HTH Georgina Joyce December 2001 Gena ______________________________________________________________________ Announcing Blindness Advocacy and Self-Help Online [BASHOnline] www.bashonline.org you can join the mailing list by sending a message to: bashonline-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Personal site: www.gena-j.net Contact Info: MSN ID: gena1959uk at hotmail.com (No mail to this address please): ICQ ID: 144169465:
