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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2001 21:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@icubed.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del once again
Message-ID:  <20010528211856.I257-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20010529095357.C54034@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

:)On Monday, 28 May 2001 at 16:29:16 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
:)>
:)> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Greg Lehey wrote:
:)>
:)>>> On Sunday, 27 May 2001 at 21:30:23 -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
:)>>>>
:)>>>> I'd like to setup Ctrl-Alt-Del to do a "halt" instead
:)>>>> of re-boot.  Searching the archives I found a snipit
:)>>>> that indicated that the following command should do it:
:)>>>>
:)>
:)> <SNIP>
:)>
:)>>>
:)>>> Yes.  Assuming you're using the standard keyboard map
:)>>> (/usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd), make a copy with an
:)>>> appropriate name and change the following line:
:)>>>
:)>>> Before:
:)>>>
:)>>>   083   del    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    boot   boot    N
:)>>>
:)>>> After:
:)>>>
:)>>>   083   del    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    '.'    halt	 halt    N
:)>>>
:)>>> This is described in the man page kbdmap(5), which was only written a
:)>>> few months ago.
:)>
:)> Nope, Doesn't work.  I copied us.iso.kbd to us.iso.kbd_cwa.  I made
:)> the above changes to keycode 083.  I then added "keymap=us.iso.kbd_cwa"
:)> to my /etc/rc.conf file.  Finally I re-booted.
:)
:)You shouldn't reboot for something so trivial.  Just run kbdcontrol.
:)
:)> When my system came back up I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del expecting a "halt" to
:)> be performed.  Instead a "reboot" occurred, just as though I had
:)> done nothing to the keymap file.
:)>
:)> Is there a way to determine if us.iso.kbd_cwa is even used?  man kbdmap
:)> shows nothing,
:)
:)How about this:
:)
:)     -d      Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout.  The output may be
:)             redirected to a file and can be loaded back to the kernel later
:)             by the -l option above.
:)
:)> and I could find nothing in dmesg.
:)
:)No, you wouldn't.
:)
:)Greg

I finally go it to work.  I had to change keycode 103 NOT 083.


>diff us.iso.kbd_cwa us.iso.kbd
109c109
<   103   fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 halt   fkey61  O
---
>   103   fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 fkey61 boot   fkey61  O

Thanks for your help.

-- 
-=[cwa]=-
FreeBSD 4.2


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