Bug 2020
| Summary: | dvorak keyboard mistake | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | hfelton |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-06-05 18:04:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Make sure that you have the initscript enabled for keytable for runlevel 5. To do this do ls -al /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ and make sure there is a line with S**keytable (** is some number like 75, etc.). If you do not then run chkconfig --level 2345 keytable on This bug is not resolved. I have been going thru the long/painful process of reformatting my hard drive with a low-level scan and have not had a chance to double check the comment that was emailed, but I believe it is incorrect. The dvorak keyboard IS working in telinit:5, EXCEPT for two keys, which have somehow been reset. The "solution" does not make sense for solving this problem. Unfortunately, I cannot test to be sure for another day or two. Sincerely, Harold. Well, I finally got around to checking on this again. /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S75keytable is a link to ../init.d/keytable which is a shell script that checks /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and uses /usr/bin/loadkeys to do the keyboard translation. /etc/sysconfig/keytable only has the line KEYTABLE=dvorak and /usr/bin/loadkeys is binary data. Again, the problem seems to be some form of reset for the two keys "]/}" and "=/+" only. If I am doing my initial login and running within bash, they are fine. As soon as I do a startx or telinit-5, then the xterm windows have them reversed. All the other keys are ok. Ideas? I would even live (at this point) with a valid workaround, so if you have one of those - please send it. Sincerely, Harold. Has anyone else, besides me, been able to reproduce this problem?
I am not installing Linux on my other PC if I cannot get dvorak
to work correctly. ie - is it Linux, or Redhat ???
------- Email Received From pbrown 04/22/99 02:01 -------
------- Additional Comments From 04/22/99 22:25 -------
Howdee,I found an answer that should be published along with this bug,so that someone else searching thru the archive sees it. ie -...then change the following lines in '/usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak'key <AE12> { [ equal, plus ] };key <AD12> { [ bracketright, braceright ] };tokey <AE12> { [ bracketright, braceright ] };key <AD12> { [ equal, plus ] };to correct the keymapping error which has ']/}' and '=/+' in the wrongorder....which I found at http://vancouver-webpages.com/vanlug/1998-2/0180.htmland exactly solves the problem without using xmodmap.Thanx anyway and I hope someone else gets info from this.I tried this at home and it worked perfectly.I guess we can call this bug closed now.Sincerely, Harold.
THe patch XFree86-3.3.3.1-dvorak.patch in the src.rpm appears to fix this problem. That patch will be available in (at least) XFree86-3.3.3.1-50. I think the fix was also added in Red hat 6.0, but I might be wrong. |
For telinit:3 - dvorak keyboard is perfect. For telinit:5 - any xterm (regardless of wm) has an error. There does not seem to be any xmodmap or other item that should cause this problem. Problem: key "+/=" and key "}]" are reversed. Note - the "_-" and "{[" keys are fine. All other keys, especially punctuation, are left intact for dvorak. It appears that the above two keys are somehow converted back to their qwerty-locations. I am using a 101-key (not 104, with windows), large-pin (not ps2) keyboard on a 486. I tried searching for keyword "dvorak" in bugzilla and no matches came up - so I assume that this is a new bug. Any help - or insights - would be appreciated. I am very hesitant to run xmodmap for just these two keys, since I do not understand what is really happening. I do greatly appreciate the fact that dvorak was an option in the original installation and it was working fine until I turned on Xwindows. Since I am a programmer, the two keys mentioned above are fairly common ones. Sincerely, Harold.