[Localization] pilot school project - Xanthi, Greece

[Cris]

Excellent.  Glad to see work being done on this.  Thanks Martin and Sayamindu.

Cris Anderson

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Cris<canderson at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
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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?
>>
>
>
> Hi Cris,
> The data is read from the manufacturing-data: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data
>
> Manufacturing data can be changed - though it will require access to a
> developer key: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Checking_the_Layout_configuration#Changing_mfg_data_.28with_q2c27a_only.29
>
> Martin and I have been working on a keyboard layout selector section
> in the control panel (which will override mfg-data), and I think that
> will appear in the next major release of Sugar.
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>