>At 9:00 Uhr +0100 29.01.1997, Christoph Ewering wrote:
>>
>>Think it is a good idea to compile a -current with german, french, etc.
>>keyboard mappings.
>>I don't like it to test every key to find * or # :-)
>
>Unfortunately, this requires changes to the kernel's kbd tables first.
>There is no column for the option key which most non-USA kbd layouts need
>to produce such insignificant chars as |\{}[]...
>
>The dt table could be taken as a model as it is a somewhat extended version
>of the kernel table.
>
>>Someone on the list told something about Amiga/Atari-NetBSD that is able
>>to take keymappings as a boot option. Someone has to translate it in the
>>mac68k-NetBSD, but i'm not an expierenced programmer.
>
>You'll become one by that way. =8)
>
>What has to be done for loadable kbd tables is to define some ioctls that
>take a (compiled) table and load it over the original one. I've been at it
>(in fact, it was my first intensive contact with kernel sources), but
>dropped the project on half the way.
>
>
>	hauke
>
>---
>"It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)

Hmmm as I didn't found any informations about kbd tables in the faq or on
the web, it's not really a surprise to learn there's nothing to to this
actually.
I'll try to compile dt and see what I can do with it.

Thanks for your answers!

Olivier