Re: keymap set after file system decryption

On 12/17/2015 16:44, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:56+0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:51+0100, Claude Buisson wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/17/2015 12:21, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:56+0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:34-0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze_at_arcor.de>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trond Endrestøl <Trond.Endrestol_at_fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess we who live outside the US should take into account that PCs
>>>>>>>> are initialised by firmware to the US keyboard layout and the 437
>>>>>>>> code
>>>>>>>> page, courtesy of IBM, 1981.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In 1981 I had accepted this.  Now it's simply a bug and I wonder it
>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>> not been fixed in 22 years.  I'll file a bug report.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not sure if the creators of (U)EFI has considered other keyboard
>>>>>>>> layouts and/or code pages at boot time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't care for the BIOS here, the OS has to take care of it.  It may
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> ok that at the boot prompt only US keymap is set.  But when the rc
>>>>>>> scripts
>>>>>>> are running the keymap must be set correctly (as one of the first
>>>>>>> actions).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A bad workaround is to copy the suitable keymap from /usr/share...
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> /etc, along with /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol, and add a suitable line to
>>>>>>>> one
>>>>>>>> or either of /etc/rc.d/geli{,2}, e.g.:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /etc/kbdcontrol -l /etc/german.iso.kbd
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> kbdcontrol is linked only to libc:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> $ ldd `which kbdcontrol`
>>>>>>>> /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol:
>>>>>>>>           libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800827000)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my case it's simpler since I have /usr in /, but as you descripted
>>>>>>> kbdcontrol must be in /sbin and the maps in /etc in the future.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carsten
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can specify your default keymap in your kernel config file.
>>>>>> ATKBD_DFLT_KEYBD. It's possible that you might be able to set it in
>>>>>> /boot/loader.conf, as well, but I'm not too sure of this. See atkbd(4).
>>>>>
>>>>> I can confirm that neither ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP nor UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP, nor
>>>>> SC_DFLT_FONT for that matter, works as intended.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have never had any success with:
>>>>>
>>>>> options		SC_DFLT_FONT
>>>>> makeoptions	SC_DFLT_FONT=iso
>>>>>
>>>>> options		UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
>>>>> makeoptions	UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=norwegian.iso
>>>>>
>>>>> options		ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
>>>>> makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=norwegian.iso
>>>>>
>>>>> Please prove me wrong.
>>>>
>>>> A recent run in stable/10 using r292334, resulted in:
>>>>
>>>> --- ukbd.o ---
>>>> cc  -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing  -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls
>>>> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>>>> -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions
>>>> -Wmissing-include-dirs -fdiagnostics-show-option
>>>> -Wno-error-tautological-compare -Wno-error-empty-body
>>>> -Wno-error-parentheses-equality -Wno-error-unused-function   -nostdinc  -I.
>>>> -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/libfdt
>>>> -D_KERNEL -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include opt_global.h
>>>> -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer -mno-aes -mno-avx
>>>> -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone -mno-mmx -mno-sse -msoft-float
>>>> -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -gdwarf-2
>>>> /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/input/ukbd.c
>>>> /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/input/ukbd.c:1216:18: error: use of undeclared
>>>> identifier 'key_map'
>>>>           sc->sc_keymap = key_map;
>>>>                           ^
>>>> /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/input/ukbd.c:1217:18: error: use of undeclared
>>>> identifier 'accent_map'
>>>>           sc->sc_accmap = accent_map;
>>>>                           ^
>>>>
>>>
>>> If your system is configured with VT and not syscons, there exists no
>>> such thing as norwegian.iso(.kbd), but you must use no(.kbd).
>>> See /usr/share/vt/keymaps/INDEX.keymaps.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, with VT, there is a chance that the system is configuerd
>>> with kbdmux, which makes things more complicated. There exist patches in
>>> bugzilla adding support of keyboard definitions to kbdmux.
>>
>> OK, so kbdcontrol(8) depends on the active console driver, be it sc or
>> vt, and kbdcontrol(8) searchs for the files in either
>> /usr/share/syscons/keymaps or /usr/share/vt/keymaps.
>>
>> In my case there's virtually no difference between norwegian.iso.kbd
>> for sc and no.kbd for vt.
>>
>> Anyway, I learned something today, and I finally got Norwegian
>> keyboard layout in my kernel.
>
> Well, not quite. A stable/10 kernel (r292399) configured as below did
> not exhibit a Norwegian keyboard layout when booted in single user
> mode. :-/
>
> kern.vty="vt"
>
> options		UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
> makeoptions	UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=no
>
> options		ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
> makeoptions	ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=no
>
> Instead of getting the letters æ ø å when hitting on those keys on a
> USB keyboard, I got the characters ' ; [, in the spirit of US
> keyboards.
>
> Full multi user mode works as expected with
>
> keymap="no"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL/atkbdmap.h begins with:
>
> /*
>   * Automatically generated from /usr/share/vt/keymaps/no.kbd.
>   * DO NOT EDIT!
>   */
> static keymap_t key_map = { 0x6d, {
>
> The same goes for ukbdmap.h in the same directory.
>
> Nothing seems to be wrong with the generated .h files.
>
> Alas, the options and makeoptions for selecting a default keymap does
> not work, at least not for USB keyboards.
>

As I said above, if you use vt, and kbdmux (which is standard and even
mandatory to be able to use Xorg), specifying the keymap for atkbd and
usbkbd is useless..

Have a look at PR 194744 by Oliver Pinter

     (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194744)

This PR is now more than 1 year old, and nothing has been done: people
using non-US keyboard are not popular here..

Claude Buisson