Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic <> US

[Walter Bender]

If things are so scrambled that you cannot sot them out, you can always:

(1) boot with the O key down to load your alternative image;
(2) do an olpc-update from the console; or
(3) reflash

But it is likely just a (simple) matter of checking your i18n-related files.

Make sure that the values in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard are correct:
KEYTABLE="us"
XKB_MODEL="olpc"
XKB_LAYOUT="us"
XKB_VARIANT=""

Make sure /home/olpc/.i8n is:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Good luck.

-walter

On 2/9/08, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Hi James,
> sorry that you have so much trouble with this.
>
> James wrote:
> > On 9 Feb 2008, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> >> Short term solution;
> >>
> >> - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the
> >> mesh view key and F2 the friends view key
> >> - edit /home/olpc/.i18n
> >> - nano /home/olpc/.i18n
> >>    - LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> >>    - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting
> >
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > Thanks for your rapid response.
> >
> > I got into the virtual console, logged in as root, and edited
> > /home/olpc/.i18n using nano, as you suggested.  So far, so good.
> >
> > How should I have left the virtual console to return to the Sugar GUI?
>
> sugar runs on the third virtual console.
> ctrl+alt+F3 (F3 is the home-key)
>
> > I exited from the root account, then rebooted the machine.  It is now
> > most unhappy.  The virtual console appears and seems to cycle through
> > the same process over and over.  Eventually it settles down and displays
> > the following:
> >
> >
> >   expected keysim, got KF86dbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
> >   xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Cannot register with
> > ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session:
> > Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such
> > file or directory
> >   Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
> >   the XKEYBOARD keymap compiler reports:
> >   > Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211
> >   >          Using <1211>, ignoring <AB11>
> >   expected keysym, got KF86KbdLightOnOff; line 70 of pc
> >   expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessDown; line 71 of pc
> >   expected keysym, got KF86KbdBrightnessUp; line 72 of pc
> >   > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levers, but <HALT> has 2 symbols
> >   >          Ignoring extra symbols
> >   Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver
> >   Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   <Many lines which could be important snipped>
> >
> >   Backtrace:
> >   <Lines numbered from 0 to 7 snipped>
> >
> >   Fatal server error
> >   Caught signal 11: server aborting
> >
> >
> >   Waiting for X server to shut down
> >
> >   INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> >
> >
> > What should I do now?
> >
> >
>
> I tried the steps you took on a ship.2 build (653). I think you run a
> similar build, or?
> - modified /home/olpc/.i18n and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard like here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup
> - change home/olpc/.i18n back to US and rebooted
> - this works - even if I put non-existant languages in i18n
>
> After the X-server tries to start in a loop it then waits for 5 minutes.
> This is the time you have to fix up things :). Switch to another virtual
> console. (ctrl+alt+F2) and check that the files you modified are right
> (i18n and the keyboard one). My keyboard one still contain the amharic
> info but does not break on that - maybe you have an even earlier build
> or some other corrupted file?
>
> Hope you get it back working,
>     Simon
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