Bug 360559

Summary: Keyboard Layout settings changes are not taken into account correctly!
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: James PEARSON <pearson45j>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: info, locilka, pearson45j
Version: Alpha 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Attachments: YaST logs

Description James PEARSON 2008-02-11 12:28:13 UTC 
# Problem 
The Keyboard Layout settings which in my case is French (azerty) are not taken
into account until very late in the installation process

# Problem Details
In the "Languages" window screen during the installation of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2 I selected:
Language = English(US)
Keyboard Layout = French

I see the "Downloading language extension" message.

In the "Installation Settings" window the section "Keyboard window" indicates that the keyboard layout is French (e.g. "azerty") but the working keyboard layout is still "querty"

This is very annoying on a laptop.... try making a custom partition setup when the keyboard configuration is set "querty" when you have a "azerty" key board - I can never remember where to look for "/" or "+" under "querty" settings. 


In the "Create New User" window, keyboard layout is still mode "querty"


In the "Password for the System Administrator "root"" window the Layout
settings are
correct (in mode azerty).

To resume, my tests show that the keyboard Layout settings changes made in the
"Languages" window screen (which is the very first window one sees during the
installation process) are not taken into until "Password for the System
Administrator "root"" window.

Note : 11.0-Alpha2 was installed using the 11.0-Alpha2 DVD which was made from
the openSUSE-11.0-Alpha1_Alpha2-DVD-i386.delta.iso

# other details
md5sum openSUSE-Alpha2-DVD-i386.iso
c307b5f1570511897b787ca11ae092df openSUSE-Alpha2-DVD-i386.iso

Test machine is a T60 Thinkpad with 3 Go RAM


Here is an update
# 1
I just re installed Alpha 2 again and the keyboard settings were OK when I set the root password but when I rebooted into KDE 4 and opened a konsole window and tried to type "su -" I couldn't help noticing that the "querty" keyboard settings were (once again) active (This is a problem because I have a "azerty" keyboard on my T60.)

# 2
When I tried to change the keyboard settings to French via the "SaX2: X11
Configuration" window - section "Keyboard Properties" the changes were not
taken into account. (This to me is a separate distinct bug)

I would greatly appreciated if these problems were corrected for the next release.
Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2008-02-19 08:15:56 UTC 
*** Bug 360361 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-02-19 09:52:43 UTC 
Could you attach YaST logs please?
Comment 3 James PEARSON 2008-02-19 19:06:17 UTC 
Created attachment 195772 [details]
YaST logs

> Comment #2 from Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik@novell.com>  2008-02-19 02:52:43 
> Could you attach YaST logs please?

Here the  YaST logs that you requested

With regards to my Update Point #1 comment
After more testing it would appear that I can set the keyboard settings to FRENCH (azerty) but when I reboot the default  "querty" keyboard configuration settings are once again active.

Let me know if you require any more info
Comment 4 Jozef Uhliarik 2008-02-20 08:57:15 UTC 
It seems to be problem of yast2-country
Comment 5 Jiří Suchomel 2008-02-20 09:25:54 UTC 
fixed, see next alpha