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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Overview">1982</a>, then I would not have so much trouble with keyboards :)<br>
<br>-Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Garrett D'Amore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garrett@damore.org">garrett@damore.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
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Chris Mosetick <<a href="mailto:cmosetick@gmail.com">cmosetick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
>The instructions on that page got me back to what I needed, so I'm good for<br>
>now. I agree that this bug introduced by Oracle is rather frustrating,<br>
>(especially for me) but I'm not in a position to fix it at this point in<br>
>time. (I'm happy to do testing)<br>
><br>
>I did read your notes from yesterday. As stated earlier my keyboard will<br>
>report itself as qwerty, since I manually rearranged the keys to dvorak.<br>
>However, it is a native USB keyboard. Perhaps my DVI+USB KVM switch is<br>
>adding another layer of complexity. It probably does not matter, as this<br>
>particular machine happens to be a virtual machine inside VirtualBox, but I<br>
>am planning to test this on a physical machine with the same keyboard and<br>
>KVM switch too. Thank you for getting me back to what I needed.<br>
><br>
>-Chris<br>
><br>
><br>
>On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Joerg Schilling <<br>
><a href="mailto:Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de">Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Chris Mosetick <<a href="mailto:cmosetick@gmail.com">cmosetick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > Thanks for your response. I took a look at the page that was linked to<br>
>> from<br>
>> > Bug 121 (<br>
>> <a href="http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100720182505.html" target="_blank">http://static.opensolaris.org/on/flagdays/pages/20100720182505.html</a>)<br>
>> > I followed the instructions, substituting Dvorak for US-English. I had<br>
>> to<br>
>> > reboot for the changes to take effect. Upon reboot my login screen was<br>
>> back<br>
>> > to Dvorak. I must say that the keyboard layout drop down box on the<br>
>> login<br>
>> > screen that most Linux Gnome implementations have provided for years is<br>
>> > really nice. However, I'm happy to deal with some minor keyboard issues<br>
>> in<br>
>> > exchange for the tremendous performance increase OS/Illumos provides.<br>
>> Now,<br>
>> > I'm off to test this out on a box that does not have Gnome installed,<br>
>> hoping<br>
>> > to have the same results.<br>
>><br>
>> If you did follow the instruction from the Solaris web page, you need to<br>
>> live<br>
>> with the bug introduced by Oracle.<br>
>><br>
>> ....or did you read the notes I added yesterday to the bug?<br>
>><br>
>> USB keyboards should work without manual configuration.<br>
>><br>
>> Jörg<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
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