[ILUG] Fadas on SuSE 6.1

[Alastair McKinstry]

A Sheain,

Conas ata tz?

I added some special Irish support to console-tools (0.2, available at
ftp://metalab.unc.edu) recently; it allows Irish accents including
seamhu.
(dot above consonants). These changes are being merged into kbdtools;
I am not sure if these have made it into SuSE 6.1. If they have, then do
the following:

in /etc/rc.config set:
KEYTABLE="ga.map"
FONT="iso14.f16"

cp /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ga.map
(if you have a US keyboard, else uk.map)
Edit this ga.map, and after the include lines add:
include "irish"

Copy the file attached (irish-new.inc) to
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/irish.inc
Then restart the kbd with
# /sbin/init.d/kbd start

or reboot, and it should all work. You should now be able to type fadas
using the 'AltGr' key as a
compose key; e.g. <compose> <a> <'> (one after another) gives  a (a
fada) ,
<compose> <c> <.> gives c with dot above. You will only be able to see
seamhu's on the console,
though; this is being worked on.

If this doesn't work, then the latest console-tools is not installed.
You could try compiling it yourself if
you like, or else replace use the irish-old include file, attached and
change the setting in /etc/rc.config to
FONT="iso01.f16". This will give you just fadas. The fadas will be
viewable under X if you have the
right fonts installed.

Please tell me what luck you have,

Alastair


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Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry at compaq.com>,
HPTC, Compaq Computer Corp.,Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland