Re: RH9 refusing to install Dvorak keyboard

xxx_SternA_at_email.com
Date: 07/12/03 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 11:01:57 -0400

I just finally hit on a solution this morning. Edit your
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard file so that instead of 'dvorak' it has
'dvorak.map.gz'.

The contents of the file should look like this:
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="dvorak.map.gz"

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:41:51 -0000, Access Systems
<accessys@smarty.smart.net> wrote:

>M N <mness@one.net> wrote:
>> It is already trying to do it. If you are at a shell prompt and type
>> 'loadkeys dvorak' it will fail as well. It reports an error in flex
>
>actually this is where it gets interesting, if I do a "Loadkeys" it will
>indeed load and will run fine unless or until I reboot the computer at
>which time it again fails to load, but if I load it manually in any
>terminal it loads correctly ????
>
>Bob
>
>
>> (a lexical parser) which makes me think one of the files in the dvorak
>> dir is bad. I still have not found a solution, but I am pretty sure
>> it has more to do with a bad file than with your inittab (or rc.d or
>> whereever that setting is stored - can't remember off the top of my
>> head).
>
>> -M N
>
>> Access Systems <accessys@smarty.smart.net> wrote in message news:<va1fm9ql5t1ef1@corp.supernews.com>...
>>>
>>> how do you "force it to load" on boot up???
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Bob