Bug 16155 – Wrong keymaps for non-US users on install cd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ernst Sjöstrand 2003-02-21 14:07:25 UTC]

If you boot from the install cd, and select a keymap like swedish, you get a keymap that's using raw ADB keycodes (like mac-se), and obviously doesn't work. Instead you should use a keymap like se-latin1 (and add the line keycode 125 = AltGr).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. 2. 3.

[Comment 1 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-02-23 12:27:45 UTC]

What installation cd are you using?

[Comment 2 Ernst Sjöstrand 2003-02-23 23:21:57 UTC]

Is a 1.4 beta with creation date around 2002-08-08. 
 
After speaking with gerk it sounded like nobody had done anything about it and that 
it still exists on the cd's. 

[Comment 3 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-02-24 04:07:34 UTC]

I'll have a look at it now

[Comment 4 Daniel Milne 2003-04-03 09:25:30 UTC]

I have similar problems. Choosing the Finnish keymap (15 fi) Gives an error 

"loadkmap: This is not a valid binary keymap"

CD burnt from gentoo-3stages-x86-1.4_rc3.iso

Cheers.

[Comment 5 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-05-03 21:31:52 UTC]

you need loadkeys - not loadkmap :-)

loadkmap is only valid on smallercds