nixpkgs/upstart-jobs/kbd.nix
Eelco Dolstra 174f4f2c99 * Set the console font, the keymap, and Unicode/ASCII mode.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=8542
2007-04-04 17:10:38 +00:00

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{glibc, kbd, gzip, ttyNumbers, defaultLocale, consoleFont, consoleKeyMap}:
let
ttys = map (nr: "/dev/tty" + toString nr) ttyNumbers;
in
{
name = "kbd";
extraPath = [
kbd
];
job = "
description \"Keyboard / console initialisation\"
start on udev
script
export LANG=${defaultLocale}
export PATH=${gzip}/bin:$PATH # Needed by setfont
set +e # continue in case of errors
# Enable or disable UTF-8 mode. This is based on
# unicode_{start,stop}.
echo 'Enabling or disabling Unicode mode...'
charMap=$(${glibc}/bin/locale charmap)
if test \"$charMap\" = UTF-8; then
for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
# Tell the console output driver that the bytes arriving are
# UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences.
echo -n -e '\\033%G' > $tty
done
# Set the keyboard driver in UTF-8 mode.
${kbd}/bin/kbd_mode -u
else
for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
# Tell the console output driver that the bytes arriving are
# UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences.
echo -n -e '\\033%@' > $tty
done
# Set the keyboard driver in ASCII (or any 8-bit character
# set) mode.
${kbd}/bin/kbd_mode -a
fi
# Set the console font.
for tty in ${toString ttys}; do
${kbd}/bin/setfont -C $tty ${consoleFont}
done
# Set the keymap.
${kbd}/bin/loadkeys '${consoleKeyMap}'
end script
";
}