[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> basanta wrote:
>  > Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing
>  > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you
>  > all.
>
> i believe /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is created on first boot, using
> information gleaned from manufacturing data.  see
> /usr/sbin/olpc-configure for details.  this would explain why changing
> the manufacturing tags didn't help -- they've already been consulted,
> on your test laptop.
>
> paul
>

Yes. This means that if you reflash, it will use the keyboard
specified in the manufacturing data, so you probably want to set it
correctly.

regards.

-walter
>  >
>  > Now I need to find a place to change default locale to ne_NP, so that the
>  > default interface is in Nepali. There is an option to do this in
>  > manufacturing data but it would be better if it can be done using file.
>  > -basanta
>  >
>  >
>  > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
>  >
>  > > Makes things much easier. Now you just have to change the
>  > > manufacruring data as was suggested earlier, but you don't need to
>  > > modify the xkb symbol table.
>  > >
>  > > Good luck.
>  > >
>  > > -walter
>  > >
>  > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:24 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>  > > > Okay, that is consistent with the data we have for the SKU311
>  > > > mentioned by Samuel on 8th November.
>  > > >
>  > > > The divide and multiply key is the language switch key.
>  > > >
>  > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:36:35PM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
>  > > >> The laptops(XO-4) have arrived but it turns out the keyboard is the
>  > > other one
>  > > >> the rubber one (Improved Membrane Keyboard ?).
>  > > >> -Basanta
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Basanta Shrestha <
>  > > >> basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     D
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
>  > > wrote:
>  > > >>
>  > > >>         On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron <
>  > > quozl at laptop.org>
>  > > >>         wrote:
>  > > >>         > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact
>  > > >>         > reuben at laptop.org or myself.  I must know the SKU number.
>  > > >>
>  > > >>         In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults
>  > > as we
>  > > >>         are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would
>  > > >>         recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for
>  > > [base], see
>  > > >>
>  > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/
>  > > >>         README#n46
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be
>  > > having
>  > > >>     more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal
>  > > with each
>  > > >>     and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be
>  > > following :
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     [base]
>  > > >>     default_language=us
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     default_kbd_model=us
>  > > >>     default_kbd_layout=us
>  > > >>     default_kbd_variant=np
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     But where do we set the key combination to switch between default
>  > > and
>  > > >>     nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as
>  > > combination.
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only
>  > > >>     required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in
>  > > Nepali.
>  > > >>
>  > > >>     -basanta
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >>
>  > > >> --
>  > > >> Basanta Shrestha
>  > > >> Network Engineer
>  > > >> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>  > > >> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>  > > >> Cell: +977.9818 605110
>  > > >> http://www.olenepal.org
>  > > >
>  > > > --
>  > > > James Cameron
>  > > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Walter Bender
>  > > Sugar Labs
>  > > http://www.sugarlabs.org
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Basanta Shrestha
>  > Network Engineer
>  > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>  > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>  > Cell: +977.9818 605110
>  > http://www.olenepal.org
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