Description of problem: Normally, Fedora uses the keyboard settings from the installer pervasively. Firstboot does not honour the settings for alternate (dvorak) keyboards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.97-1.fc9 How reproducible: Not yet tested. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing Fedora 9 2. Pick the netherlands locale (nl_NL.UTF-8) - This is only for accuracy, and reflects what I picked at install time. 3. Pick a dvorak keyboard layout. 4. Continue with the install in the ordinary fashion 5. Observe incorrect (qwerty) keyboard set in firstboot. Actual results: Already duly noted. Expected results: Usage of the dvorak keyboard in the firstboot system. Additional info:
I had the same problem with the French latin 9 keyboard. Someone on planet.fedoraproject.org reported it with a belgian keyboard. So it looks like it's not related to the keyboard mapping you chose. For me, the only page on firstboot where I noticed it was in the "create user" page. Quite a problem for setting the password... :S
Same with UK layout. Selected at install and first boot, but reverts to USA for users. system-config-keyboard still reports UK layout, but this isn't percolating through the system...
The same with installing in English and an Estonian keyboard. The first evidence of a problem was at the "create user" page. The characters produced weren't Latin. I'm not worldly enough to say what they were. I had to skip creating a new user and also setting an NTP server. The xorg.conf file matched what I had from F9 preview release and Gnome worked correctly.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 446345 ***