On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Dave Price wrote:
> Dear All,
> We are having large problems getting auto installs of opensolaris 2009.06 on
> x86 to properly detect UK layout keyboards. No matter what we do, if we
> either access from the directly attached USB keyboard, or from a remote
> location via xdmcp, then various keys on keyboard get handled/displayed
> incorrectly. A typical problem being that UK pound (?) gets displayed as ?
>
> If we install from a live CD, then all works fine. Of course, when
> installing from live CD we get asked various location/keyboard type
> questions. As I understand it, auto install tries to detect the answers to
> these, but obviously gets things wrong...
Currently the auto installer always sets the keyboard
type to US-English. There is an existing enhancement
request that captures the need for supporting keyboard
layout specification -
4585 Automated Installer needs support for setting keyboard
layout from AI manifest
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4585
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