I've got my first 2004.3 livecd actually working tho there's one slight problem. The us keyboard default selection ends up in a keyboard mapping where the return key doesn't work! The enter key on the keyboard does work for hitting return but never had to do this before so i suspect it's perhaps something subtile. pvdabeel did you have to do anything with this for ppc? I would imagine you would see the same issue.
I'd like to add that it's not just the return key. Things are baaad. Control has been mapped to caps lock, so I can't use pico or emacs (or ctrl-C anything.) Shift, tab, option/alt/meta and arrow keys are also messed up, making things rather difficult. This is with the white Apple keyboard that came with my G5.
Fixed in genkernel-3.0.2q.
great job, fixed! Stick a fork in it!
A similar problem occurs in "Beta2 Pmac G5" when keymap is chosen at the time of the start. Is this known ploblem ? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot using "Beta2 Pmac G5" iso image. 2. choose keymap (for example, jp)
reopoening based on nigoro's comments
Ok, this is most likely something to do with the keymaps being x86-generic or something similar and I'd need some PPC-generated keymaps to solve this issue. If you can provide me with some, we could make an arch-detection mechanism for the initrd so the right keymap set is used...
Still an issue with the latest genkernels?
This should be fixed on recent genkernel versions 3.2.1 and above ... Reopen if this is still an issue.
Still an issue...
> The 'de'-Layout switches roughly to a German layout (mainly z and y switched). > But the Umlaut-keys are still on the us-layout. That's the correct behaviour. > What German users expect is the 'de-latin1-nodeadkeys'-layout. In order to > minimize bugs, I suggest to change that in the 'dokeymap' selection, so that > with choosing 'de', the layout 'de-latin1-nodeadkeys' will be loaded. (Quoted from bug #142514 Comment #2 by Pylon)
*** Bug 142514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 149394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 149449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Does anyone know if this is still a problem?
As far as I know, yes. I've wanted to change this for the longest time to be work differently. The whole reason genkernel has done the keyboard layout is due to genkernel possibly needing someone to type during boot. That being said, I think that if the user is forced into using genkernel's shell, that there's something more likely broken anyway that should be resolved. I've been dying to modify autoconfig to rather do the keyboard selection. I've just never had the time.
I'm obviously still getting complaints on this. Can we say we'll fix in 2008?
Is this still an issue in the weekly auto builds?
Could anyone tell me exactly what is currently broken? Is this ARCH specific (someone mentions ppc problems because of x86-generated keymaps)? Is this KEYMAP specific (someone mentions using 'de-latin1-nodeadkeys' instead of whatever genkernel curretly chooses)? I have a swedish keyboard on a x86_64 machine and never had any troubles of this kind, so I am very interested in feedback on what goes wrong, when it goes wrong, how to reproduce and what can be done about it.
Can we close this?
If anyone is still experiencing the reported problem with genkernel-4.0.x or later please provide steps how to reproduce.
