On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Philip Newborough <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/13/2010 01:46 AM, Philip Newborough wrote: >>> >>> the keyboard selections chosen during the install process are not being >>> honoured >> >> you're using squeeze, right? what keyboard combination are you using? >> > > Yes, I am building on squeeze. During the install I generally select > "English - English" for language, "United Kingdom" for location and > "British English" for keyboard layout. > > In the installed system, both 'tzdata' and 'locales' appear to be > configured correctly, but 'keyboard-configuration' keeps its default > settings of "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" for model, "USA" for layout, > "The default for the keyboard layout" for AltGr and "No compose key" > for Compose key. > > Is this a bug? Or am I missing something? > > -- Philip >
I have now tried an installation with Marco Amadori's patch[1] applied. As stated by Marco, it does fix the problem and the chosen keymap is correctly set-up in the installed system. However, during the installation I was prompted to select my desired keymap 3 times, so it is far from ideal. Also, this is obviously quite easy to fix in the installed system by reconfiguring the 'keyboard-configuration' package, but I guess the main concern is when a user selects any keymap, other than US, during the install process and uses any characters in their password which are not mapped to US. In such a case the user might be a bit flummoxed when their password is rejected. Any thoughts? -- Philip [1]:http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2010/11/msg00156.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
