Bug 103518

Summary:	dvorak keymap fails in virtual consoles
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	Paul Morgan <paul.morgan>
Component:	kbd	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
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Description Paul Morgan 2003-09-01 17:22:14 UTC

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Description of problem:
Dvorak keyboard layout does not work in virtual consoles.

The dvorak layout works fine in X (default RH Bluecurve - gnome metacity), but
the virtual consoles do not load the correct layout.

In a virtual console while logged in as root or non-root user, running `loadkeys
dvorak` results in the following output:
Loading //lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak
input in flex scanner failed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kbd-1.08-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard as follows:
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="dvorak"

init 6

Actual Results:  During init, the following messages are logged:
Sep  1 09:22:39 vaio keytable:
Sep  1 09:22:39 vaio keytable: Loading system font:
Sep  1 09:22:39 vaio keytable:
Sep  1 09:22:39 vaio rc: Starting keytable:  failed


Expected Results:  Keyboard layout should load correctly for virtual consoles.

Additional info:

Dvorak layout within virtual consoles worked in RH8, but not RH9 and not Severn.

Workaround: ANSI-dvorak layout works fine in both X and virtual consoles under
Severn. I have not tested the dvorak-l (left) or dvorak-r (right) layouts.

Comment 1 Paul Morgan 2003-09-01 19:08:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90562 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:22 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.