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

[Chris Mosetick]

The instructions on that page got me back to what I needed, so I'm good for
now.  I agree that this bug introduced by Oracle is rather frustrating,
(especially for me) but I'm not in a position to fix it at this point in
time.  (I'm happy to do testing)

I did read your notes from yesterday.  As stated earlier my keyboard will
report itself as qwerty, since I manually rearranged the keys to dvorak.
However, it is a native USB keyboard.  Perhaps my DVI+USB KVM switch is
adding another layer of complexity.  It probably does not matter, as this
particular machine happens to be a virtual machine inside VirtualBox, but I
am planning to test this on a physical machine with the same keyboard and
KVM switch too.  Thank you for getting me back to what I needed.

-Chris


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Joerg Schilling <
Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> 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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