#6945 BLOC Update1: MFG Problem: Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters

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#6945: MFG Problem: Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters
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 Reporter:  kimquirk   |       Owner:  walter   
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  Update1.1
Component:  keyboards  |     Version:           
 Keywords:             |    Verified:  0        
 Blocking:             |   Blockedby:           
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 Build 703, q2d14 (must be a fresh install AFTER setting the mfg-data for
 ethiopian keyboard)

 This is holding up production of Ethiopian laptops at Quanta.

 I set the mfg-data to mimic an Ethiopian keyboard using info from here:
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data

   * KL = us,et
   * KV = olpc2,basic
   * LO = am_ET.UTF-8
   * KA ref = us

 After the cleaninstall of a 703, when you get the name screen, I type
 characters and they come out in Ahmaric. I press the change character set
 button (lower right below Enter key); and the characters are still Ahmaric
 (they should be English).

 In Pippy, Terminal activity, and Abiword - I can't get English.

 In linux virtual terminal, all characters are English (this is ok).

 When I went into the linux virtual terminal after the boot up, there are a
 bunch of errors including the final one:

 More than one layout variant on command line
 Using "et", ignoring "olpc2,basic".

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6945>
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