[Sugar-devel] Non-US non-XO keyboard (Was: "7 Meilen Stiefel" or New Soas-2 image available)

[Sean DALY]

Actually my problem is not the XOs which are qwerty, but my netbooks
which are azerty


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sean,
>
> The OLPC XO sets the keyboard based upon manufacturing data, since the
> keyboard layout is determined by the hardware. The language setting in
> the Control Panel is just for the language of the interface, which is
> independent of the physical keyboard.
>
> We do need to resolve this for SoaS at some point. But as Martin
> points out, it is possible to set  by editing a configuration file...
>
> -walter
>
> 2009/3/27 Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:39:13AM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
>>> Thanks Simon, I have read the thread but it seems to apply to XOs
>>> only
>>
>> It applies to Soas.
>>
>>> My Acer Aspire One has a French azerty keyboard and boots up SoaS-1
>>> and SoaS-2, but I can't find a way for it to see the French keyboard
>> [...]
>>> any way to solve this, even manual config?
>>
>> Try putting something like this in your /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file:
>>
>> KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
>> KEYTABLE="us"
>> LAYOUT="fr,us"
>> MODEL="pc105+inet"
>> OPTIONS=""
>> VARIANT="azerty"
>>
>> Disclaimer: I haven't tried this and am mostly guessing.
>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Sean
>>
>> Martin
>>
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