I installed RHL 6 on a new machine using the standard U.S. keyboard layout. When I attempted to use kbdconfig to change the layout, it set /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, but the changes did not take effect. I have the dvorak keyboard layout working in X, but cannot get it to work at the console.
bill, this is because there is /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak, the directory, and /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz, the keymap. I think a newer console-tools might be in order.
fixed in console-tools-199903020-16, which will be in next Raw Hide.