From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-laptop i686) Description of problem: In standard RH7.1 installs, if one uses the kbdconfig tool, it does not edit the keyboard type in either /etc/X11/XF86Config or ..-4, it leaves the "us" style keyboards in there. It does edit the keyboard map for the virtual consoles though. This worked in RH7.0 and below. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type the UK "#" key and get a \ 2. run kbdconfig as root 3. select UK 4. log out of X window (restarting X) 5. Log back in 6. type UK "#" key and still get a \ NB This bug was discovered by a delegate on an RH133 course I was teaching on behalf of Red Hat UK whilst in Dublin Ireland. I tried the same steps on every machine in the room and the same thing happened. I had to remap every machine by hand editing the X config files. Additional info:
I don't see how this could work in 7.0. kbdconfig has *never* edited X configuration files. Switching to an enhancement request.
We're deprecating kbdconfig in the next version and redhat-config-keyboard properly modifies the XFree86 config file. Closing this report as 'wontfix'