[Localization] pilot school project - Xanthi, Greece

[Cris]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Walter Bender<walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard should look something like this:
>
> KEYTABLE="us"
> XKB_MODLE="olpc"
> XKB_LAYOUT="us,gr"
> XKB_VARIANT="olpc2,olpc"
>
> The OLPC variants should allow you to switch between US and GR by
> hitting the language key on the far right of the keyboard.
>
> -walter
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, pavlos
> hatzopoulos<phatzopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> we just received 30 XO-1s for the Xanthi pilot project that starts in
>> September 2009 at a minority school in Northern East, Greece.
>>
>> We encountered 2 main problems in the first testing that we did:
>>
>> - although we changed to the Greek language from the control panel and
>> updated online all the XOs, it was impossible to switch to the Greek
>> character keyboard using any of the shortcuts.
>>
>> ...is there a roadmap on this? (some more knowledgable people than me tried
>> to change some root files, but the applied changes weren't saved after
>> rebooting)
>>
>> - the olpc-mesh network experienced problems co-existing with a non-mesh
>> wireless network that we used for internet access. XOs were still connected
>> to one another but we couldn't perform any of the collaborative activities.
>>
>> ...any roadmap on how to circumvent this problem?
>>
>> thanks,
>> pavlos
>>
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>
>
>
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Has this fix been changed so that the changes stay after
reflashing/updating the system?  In my experience, this fix works very
well, but changes made to the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file will be
overwritten if the machine's os is updated.  Am I wrong on this?

Cris Anderson