[PC-BSD Testing] followup: keyboard error on live DVD (latest alpha iso)

[Kris Moore]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Dru Lavigne wrote:

> Changing to IBM ThinkPad in the System Settings -> Keyboard Layout while in the live DVD fixed it.
> 
> But it is strange that the same default setting of Generic 104 key PC works on the same system when
> installed. Anyone have any theories about why?
> 
> It may be a transient bug. Out of the dozens of installs I've tried this week, one of them resulted in the
> same keyboard error. In that install, I clicked on another language in the Preferred Layout menu of the
> Keyboard Setup screen, then clicked back to English and moved on with the install. However, the error is
> reproducable every time I use the live DVD on this system.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dru
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> I booted up the live DVD on an IBM R51 laptop and the right side of the keyboard is not mapped correctly. For
> example, typing pcbsd.org into Konqueror looks like this:
> 
> *cbsd.6rg
> 
> and typing ifconfig into konsole looks like this:
> 
> 5fc6nf5g
> 
> I suspect it is not loading the correct keyboard layout. PC-BSD installs fine on this system using the
> default keyboard setup settings.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dru
> !DSPAM:1,4b26d7bd20144171720625!
>

That bug sounds like your laptops numlock key is enabled, and you are tryping the numlock pad numbers
as a result. Do you have a key to disable numlock on that system? I just put a call in for the LIVE
mode to run "numlockx off" when starting KDE, that should help take care of the issue in the future :)

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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software