[LUGSB] Debian woes: keyboard map

[Chris Wright]

Hey all --

I just installed Debian via debootstrap (from ArchLinux), and I can't
change the keyboard map.

Loadkeys has been nonfunctional at least since Linux 2.6.8 from what I
can tell, but Debian offers a console-data package. You can
reconfigure it to change your console keymap. It doesn't work for me
-- no errors are produced; I just don't get the right keyboard map.
And that slows my typing speed to five or ten words per minute.

I had further problems earlier: I didn't have the device files from
the debootstrap distribution (the tarball containing them seems only
to be distributed via apt), so I copied them from my Arch partition,
which resulted in me being unable to open a terminal. I fixed that, of
course; now that I have a Debian system, I can apt-get debootstrap to
get said tarball. But that might be related.

Any suggestions on what I can do? Aside from starting over, that is.

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