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

[Chris Mosetick]

Indeed, you are correct Garrett.  Not to drag out this conversation any
longer, but a couple more things I thought of.  It is my understanding that
what I have been doing the last few years with keyboards (manually
rearranging) is fairly common with dvorak typists (or perhaps people from
other countries living in the US).  There is relatively large (but
unnoticed) group of dvorak typist around, but not enough of them for a
company to create and sell nice dvorak boards that people want to use at a
fair price.  (TypeMatrix now features a one-touch dvorak key on their funky
$110 boards) So, we are left with a small percentage of qwerty boards that
allow you rearrange the keys in a way that they still function properly and
sit level.  To add to this, some qwerty boards that will have level keys
will not let you place the j and f keys in different positions, which is
really annoying since all boards can be re-mapped in the OS as already
witnessed.  I won't even go into my GRUB gripes and how much fun that is to
remap.  Of course if everyone else would just migrate from 1873, and at
least to 1936, err
1982<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Overview>,
then I would not have so much trouble with keyboards :)

-Chris

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> As you have selected a different layout than your hardware would have
> reported anyway, following the configuration in the bug notes was the right
> thing to do.  In fact, your situation is exactly the kind of situation that
> joergs proposed fix would have missed.
>
> Chris Mosetick <cmosetick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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
> >>
> >> --
> >>  EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de<EMail%3Ajoerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
> <EMail%3Ajoerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de<EMail%253Ajoerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>>(home)
> Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
> >>       js at cs.tu-berlin.de                (uni)
> >>       joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog:
> >> http://schily.blogspot.com/
> >>  URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
> >>
> >
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