I have tried to install slackware 12 using hugesmp.s and huge.s and in
both cases it fails at the keyboard mapping option.

I am using a usb keyboard and all is ok until the keyboard mapping
prompt where the keyboard dies.

where exactly does it die? booting up or setting up the keyboard mapping?

Mine is doing this too, at the point during startup to "press 1 to change keymap or enter to use default".

Locks up hard, no keyboard response (CTRL-ALT-DEL, ALT-F*, CTRL-C, etc), no light toggle on [Caps,Scroll,Num]-lock keys. Hard reset is the only way out.

Going to try installing again & appending "acpi=off" at boot:

Machine is an Abit KT7a-RAID w/ Athlon 1200.

The keyboard dies on keyboard mapping, exactly as onedingo's responce.

acpi=off, apci=off, noacpi, noapic all did nothing.

boot: speakup.s

worked perfect and with a little work you can have cli speech...

That works....Many Thanks.

I'm having the same problem: install locks up when I try to change the keymap. What is "speakup.s"? Doesn't it have to do with speach synthesizers?

I just want to change my keymap to the "la" option (I type in Spanish).

-Greg

It's a screen reader system for voice on the CLI.

(Both of these are also on the CD/DVD)
/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/SPEAKUP_DOCS.TXT
/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/SPEAK_INSTALL.TXT

Main page: http://www.linux-speakup.org/

Ah. I get it... I've seen those in action (should have know what it was).

But, what does it have to do with the keymap locking up during the Slack 12.0 install?

I'm considering installing Slack 12.0 with the US keymap and then changing the keyboard layout to my "la" after I have the install complete. But... it seems a real cheezy way to do something that's worked before (with Slack 9.1, 11.0, etc.). Sorry if I'm OT.

-Greg

Completely guessing, I would assume it has something to do with Speakup's keymap hooking in and doing something.

Just use it to get to a point where you can compile your own kernel.

Oh, man... you gotta be kidding. Compile my own kernel just to use a Spanish (la) keyboard? That's encouraging...

-g

It's worth it to tune for your hardware.

Slackware makes it easy as it just uses the vanilla sources.

Got a link for a good how-to or tutorial? I recompiled in my Slack 11.0 in order to get a 2.6 kernel going, and I relied heavily on a how-to/tutorial to walk me through the procedure. I'm not experienced at all with kernel stuff.

I've been googling on the idea of just installing Slack 12.0 with the US keyboard layout and then using loadkeys to change it later. But... I'm lost. There has to be a config file somewhere where loadkeys goes out and grabs the right keymap.

That's basically all I need (I think).

-g

Just changing the keymap should be achievable through /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap.

Mine loads the Dvorak layout.

#!/bin/sh
# Load the keyboard map. More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then
/usr/bin/loadkeys dvorak.map
fi

You also need to do some work on /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Mine is:

Section "InputDevice"
...
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
...
EndSection

Did you try to change layout during setup using speakup.s?

Yeah, that's what I keep reading. But, I don't have one. Right now my desktop is still WinXP, but I'm using my server (full install of Slack 12.0) as a reference point. There is no rc.keymap file in /etc/rc.d/ I can't find where the keymap is being loaded from -- which script.

No I haven't. I mean... I don't need speach sythesizing... But, are you telling me this might do the work-around for the hang during the install (keymap)? Sorry, man, it just seems weird, that's all. You know?

What gets me is why there isn't a file rc.keymap in Slack 12? Or why I didn't get one?

The one work-around I saw was to just use rc.local to call loadkeys at boot.

-Greg