Bugzilla Bug 172449

If I select portuguese (29) I still get an US keymap. After installing Gentoo
and choosing my keymap it works fine. But it would make the installation a lot
easier if this was fixed.

Reproducible: Always

I forgot to mention this happens in at least five different pc's. If necessary,
you can contact me to try new livecd's. 

This is a correction from my last bug where I thought the keymap selection bug
was still there. Sorry, I jumped to conclusions. Thing is, I forgot I was using
the livecd with X, so the problem was that *gnome* didn't had the right
keymap... 

The other cd's were just fine. So I'm thinking that for new users and
distracted ones like myself, the keymap selection should also change the keymap
for gnome. I'll have a look at a patch if I get to learn bash, if I forget
anyone interested can send me an email reminder.

This is actually a genkernel bug, which I think I have fixed.  I'm leaving this
open since we do need a new LiveCD release with this bug fixed before we can
close this one.

This should be fixed in 2007.0, please REOPEN if it isn't.

Typing from the livecd, (it is beautiful), but this bug remains.

Keyboard model is :Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
but gnome kbd layout is US. Using option 29 - Portuguese, only.

Is this a genkernel bug really? For me swedish layout works fine in console,
but it seems like it is the creation of xorg.conf that needs a bit love...

(In reply to comment #6)

Yes, read chooseKeymap() in
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/genkernel/trunk/generic/initrd.scripts?view=markup

It tries to set some xkeyboard setting I don't know. Can you solve this? I have
yet to learn sed.

It is far more trivial then that.
A file belonging to mkxf86config has a missing value.
Please change subject accordingly.

Proposed fix:
--- /etc/X11/xorg.conf.in.old    2007-07-29 14:51:02.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf.in        2007-07-29 14:54:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@
        Option  "XkbModel" "pc105"
 #      Option  "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle,grp_led:scroll"
        Option  "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
+       Option  "XkbLayout" ""
 EndSection

 Section "InputDevice"


Background:

mkxf86config searches for XkbLayout in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add/replace the
value after with the value of XKEYBOARD initrd wrote to
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard.
Becouse of XkbLayout is missing in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.in mkxf86config can't
change its value (it does not try to add it if it does not find it) leaving us
with a /etc/X11/xorg.conf without XkbLayout at all.

Ok, I'm going to trust you (changed subject), good work. 

I couldn't find mkxf86config as a project of gentoo, only the Chris Gianelloni
releases. It's the xorg.conf.in that needs to be changed.

It really isn't a Gentoo project.  It has no repository.

Anyway, this will be fixed with 0.9.9 of mkxf86config and should be fixed next
release (2007.1) but I'll likely be asking at least one of you to help properly
test it.  I can test it somewhat, but being an American with a US keyboard
makes testing it for real functionality a bit harder.

OK.  I've fixed this in the tree with mkxf86config 0.9.9 but will be leaving
this bug open until 2007.1 is released.

(In reply to comment #10)

Ok, i've tested this on a catalyst livecd and it solved the problem, but I can
always test the 2007.1 cd in case something else brakes it.

This should be fixed with 2008.0's release.