Hello all,

I've now got an LFS system up with Xorg 6.9 from BLFS and a few other programs from BLFS. I still have a lot to do with it but there are some niggling problems I want to get rid of.

With all linux distros I get this error when booting:

atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e059 <keycode>' to make it known

And whats more they stream down the prompt making it hard to type.

So I follow it and setkeycodes to something random like 250, which works until I reboot.

I want this to go away permanently, what can I do?

Thats my first problem, second:

Bash prompts. I don't know what to call it, but the bit showing before you type something which normally looks something like this:

user@host : /directory symbol
So something like:
root@superhost : /root #

However, my machine looks more like this:

root@host : /rootroot@host:~# (when i'm in the ~ directory)

And I want to change it to look more like the earlier one. What can I do?

Cheers

Fixed the problem with bash.

Anyone know how I can fix the setkeycodes problem? Cheers

Can't help you with the other stuff, but for Bash prompts look here

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html

Chapter 2 gives you the info you need.

Post your full dmesg & your full error/boot log. What kind of keyboard & keyboard controller are you using? Try rebuilding your kernel (using your old .config, of course), making a few keyboard/controller related changes. Good luck.

The source code of atkbd (./drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c) may also help a bit.

Some of the comments in there tell of keyboards that have compatibility problems.

There is also mention of a userland tool to set the keycodes, you could add that to the initial process run or perhaps the shell login resource file.