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Operating Systems Solaris Jumpstart / Flar problems Solaris 10 8/07 Post 302142483 by reborg on Friday 26th of October 2007 12:07:02 PM
Old 10-26-2007
I'm guessing here becasue I only have SPARC solaris boxes to hand where the keyboard keyword is not used, but I would guess that the reason that it is not working is bacuse that value is used only when configuring the Xsun Xserver but Xorg is being used in you installation.


My suspicion stems mainly from this section of the sysidcfg manpage as kdmconfig is not used to configure the X.org Xserver.
Code:
     The following keywords apply only to x86 platforms. For  all
     these  keywords, use kdmconfig -d to create or append to the
     sysidcfg file. See kdmconfig(1M)

Although there is nothing in the documentation to suggest that this is the case.

Quote:
keyboard Keyword

The sysidkdb tool configures your USB language and its corresponding keyboard layout.

The following procedure occurs:

*

If the keyboard is self-identifying, the keyboard language and layout automatically configures during installation.
*

If the keyboard is not self-identifying, the sysidkdb tool provides you with a list of supported keyboard layouts during installation, so that you can select a layout for keyboard configuration.
Note -

PS/2 keyboards are not self-identifying. You will be asked to select the keyboard layout during the installation.

You can configure the keyboard language and its corresponding keyboard layout information by using the keyboard keyword. Each language has its own keyboard layout. Use the following syntax to select a language and its corresponding layout.

keyboard=keyboard_layout

For example, this entry sets the keyboard language and its corresponding keyboard layout for the German language:

keyboard=German

The value provided for keyboard_layout must be a valid value. Otherwise, an interactive response is required during installation. The valid keyboard_layout strings are defined in the /usr/share/lib/keytables/type_6/kbd_layouts file.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

dumpkeys

loadkeys(1)							   User Commands						       loadkeys(1)

NAME

       loadkeys, dumpkeys - load and dump keyboard translation tables

SYNOPSIS

       loadkeys [filename]

       dumpkeys

DESCRIPTION

       loadkeys  reads	the  file  specified  by filename, and modifies the keyboard streams module's translation tables. If no file is specified,
       loadkeys loads the file: /usr/share/lib/keytables/type_tt/layout_dd, where tt is the value returned by the KIOCTYPE ioctl, and  dd  is  the
       value  returned	by  the  KIOCLAYOUT ioctl (see	kb(7M)).   These keytable files specify only the entries that change between the specified
       layout and the default layout for the particular keyboard type. On self-identifying keyboards, the value returned by the  KIOCLAYOUT  ioctl
       is set from the DIP switches.

       dumpkeys  writes  the current contents of the keyboard streams module's translation tables, in the format specified by keytables(4), to the
       standard output.

FILES

       /usr/share/lib/keytables/layout_dd

	   default keytable files

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE		     |ATTRIBUTE VALUE		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       kbd(1), keytables(4), attributes(5), kb(7M), usbkbm(7M)

SunOS 5.11							    20 Apr 1998 						       loadkeys(1)
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