[Sugar-devel] Fwd: French keyboard map for XO-4 non-membrane keyboard

[Jerry Vonau]

> On December 14, 2014 at 2:06 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:54:49PM +0100, Lionel Laské wrote:
> > (Sorry, probably not the right for this question list but
> > [1]lists.laptop.org seems to be down)
>
> Yes.  Reuben is working on it.
>
> > We're starting a small XO-4 deployment (25 XO) in a school in
> > France.  We want to switch the English (US international) keyboard
> > to a French one (AZERTY).  Of course, I know it means that we'll
> > need to use stickers to cover the current keyboard.
> > BTW I would like to know how to do that at the software level:
> > - Is it possible into the firmware ? For example, changing a tag
> > - Is it possible from the command line ? I had no luck with
> > setxkbmap fr command.
>
> Yes, change tags, before the first boot.  At ok prompt:
>
> ok tags(
> ok delete-tag KL
> ok add-tag KL fr
> ok delete-tag LO
> ok add-tag LO fr_FR.UTF-8
> ok )tags \ laptop will reboot
>
> Or, change tags, and force olpc-configure to re-run, by removing
> /.olpc-configured and /home/olpc/.olpc-configured marker files.
>
> For your situation the tags to change are:
>
> - KL for the keyboard,
>
> - LO for display language.
>
> For your situation, the tags KM and KV should not change.
>
> See read_config in olpc-configure
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-utils/tree/usr/sbin/olpc-configure#n103
>

Given the url above at line 164, if you're applying a custom build you
could take advantage of os-builder's default_language* settings in the ini
file[1] to override the hard coded mfg-data. One could also write the
appropriate details into /etc/olpc-configure/ and force olpc-configure to
be re-run also(thinking TinyCore here).

Just some ideas,

Jerry

1.
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/kspost.50.lang_kbd_overrides.sh