HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

[Sergio]

On 10/26/2012 11:24 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

>
> */etc/sysconfig/keyboard has been change to **/etc/vconsole.conf
> *
> The virtual console configuration is /etc/vconsole.conf
> /*
> *//*NOTE THAT THE VARIABLES BEING USED HAVE CHANGED*/
>
> SYSFONT= becomes FONT=
> SYSFONTACM= becomes FONT_MAP=
> UNIMAP= becomes FONT_UNIMAP=
> KEYTABLE= becomes KEYMAP=
>
> Kernel keymap and fonts is the default being used if FONT= or KEYMAP=
> are not set or empty

You mean this is only out of X?
I upgraded today from F17 via yum and didn't create /etc/vconsole.conf yet.

cat /proc/cmdline
... KEYTABLE=br-abnt2 ...

and it works properly out of X.
But X loads the 'us' keymap due to evdev:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
{snip}
[    43.769] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    43.769] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[    43.769] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
{snip}