Bug 231083

Summary:	2008.0 x86 livecd: wrong keyboard layout within gdm
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	All ISO	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2008-07-07 16:58:39 UTC

However at the command line the choosen "de" layout works fine (ThinkPad T41, x86).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-12 16:32:24 UTC

This has been an outstanding issue for the LiveCD since the beginning. The keymap support in genkernel was designed for use on the minimal CD.

There's no real way to extend it for setting the keymap in X without rigging something in livecd-tools's autoconfig or mkxf86config to read the current keymap and then set it in xorg.conf.

Comment 2 Herve Darce 2008-12-28 17:44:20 UTC

There is a bug in /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh (livecd 2008). mkxf86config.sh does not properly to initialize the keyboard fr for example (XkbLayout "fr").

Solution: 
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mv /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh.bug;
sed -e 's|\*\"\[\^\"\]\*\"|\*\"\(\^\"\)\*\"|g;' /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh.bug > /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh
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I replace in /usr/sbin/mkxf86config.sh:
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-e 's|"XkbLayout" *"[^"]*"|"XkbLayout" "'"${XKEYBOARD}"'"|g;'"${DEADKEYS}"
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by
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-e 's|"XkbLayout" *"(^")*"|"XkbLayout" "'"${XKEYBOARD}"'"|g;'"${DEADKEYS}"
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Herve Darce

Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure

2011-05-13 19:57:26 UTC

No more livecds, so closing this bug.