Dammit, Redhat, get it right!
Sep. 26th, 2003 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSince you're seeing this, Linux 2.6.0 did not fry Lain's teeny little mind, although it did throw her for a bit of a loop. Everything that I bothered to experiment with worked. I hadn't quite gotten up to testing the sound, because more important to me was the Thinkpad features like hardware suspend. Unfortunately, that crashed the box. As bugs go, that's a biggie, so I reverted to 2.4.21 and everything's hunky-dory again.
I did track down one major nuisance of mine. The console has never come up in Dvorak mode, ever. It's always read "Loading Keymap: FAILED!" when I boot. This is no serious deal since X loads and its Dvorak handler works correctly. But I finally decided to figure out what was going on.
The program loadkeys tries very hard, based on the information you give it, to figure out what keyboard you're using. But RedHat, in a fit of... something... decided to put the dvorak, dvorak-L, and dvorak-R files in the keyboard tree. (The 'L' and the 'R' forms are optimized for users with only one hand.) The end result is that loadkeys couldn't figure out which one you wanted.
Solution: put the exact, fully qualified path, including '.map' and any compression suffix, into /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and everything should work. In most redhat installs, that path is /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz.
I did track down one major nuisance of mine. The console has never come up in Dvorak mode, ever. It's always read "Loading Keymap: FAILED!" when I boot. This is no serious deal since X loads and its Dvorak handler works correctly. But I finally decided to figure out what was going on.
The program loadkeys tries very hard, based on the information you give it, to figure out what keyboard you're using. But RedHat, in a fit of... something... decided to put the dvorak, dvorak-L, and dvorak-R files in the keyboard tree. (The 'L' and the 'R' forms are optimized for users with only one hand.) The end result is that loadkeys couldn't figure out which one you wanted.
Solution: put the exact, fully qualified path, including '.map' and any compression suffix, into /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and everything should work. In most redhat installs, that path is /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz.
