[illumos-Developer] building step 3, keyboard layout changed after update to b145

[Joerg Schilling]

Chris Mosetick <cmosetick at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your response.  I took a look at the page that was linked to from
> Bug 121 (http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100720182505.html)
> I followed the instructions, substituting Dvorak for US-English.  I had to
> reboot for the changes to take effect.  Upon reboot my login screen was back
> to Dvorak.  I must say that the keyboard layout drop down box on the login
> screen that most Linux Gnome implementations have provided for years is
> really nice.  However, I'm happy to deal with some minor keyboard issues in
> exchange for the tremendous performance increase OS/Illumos provides.  Now,
> I'm off to test this out on a box that does not have Gnome installed, hoping
> to have the same results.

If you did follow the instruction from the Solaris web page, you need to live 
with the bug introduced by Oracle.

....or did you read the notes I added yesterday to the bug?

USB keyboards should work without manual configuration.

Jörg

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