On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 00:28:03 -0400
frank via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Hello,
> (Sorry to give you guys two problems at once!)
>
> I just installed Devuan Daedalus. The installer did not offer a Dvorak
> keyboard layout, so I set it up to use Dvorak afterwards using "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure console-common" .
> That works, but I have to run it each time I boot and it doesn't change
> the login keymap if I use a console to run it before logging in.
>
> I tried following the logic used to set up the keymap from
> /ete/init.d/keyboard-setup.sh , but it just refers to a cached keymap
> under /etc/console-setup/. I'm really not sure what to replace it with
> such that I'll get a working keymap.
>
> For the moment, I just replaced it with my current setup's keymap, which
> is ISO-8859 whereas the new system is using UTF-8. This only works for
> the ttys other than tty1. tty1 and xorg still use the old querty keymap.
>
> Is there some way to permanently change the keymap?
>
> Thanks!

Hi,
check if you a have a /etc/default/keyboard file

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="it"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"