Re: RH7J vs. JIS keyboard layout

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

Is this the same problem,  this is on Redhat 6.2(Non Japanese version)
with a Japanese keyboard.  The keyboard mapping is fine when X is
running(someone here did a hack to get it going), but before X is
running it is missing a few key mappings and is very annoying.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Feb  5 09:09:43 noosa keytable: Loading keymap:
Feb  5 09:09:43 noosa keytable: Loading
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/jp106.kmap.gz
Feb  5 09:09:43 noosa keytable: loadkeys:
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/jp106.kmap.gz:6:
Feb  5 09:09:43 noosa keytable: Loading system font:
Feb  5 09:09:43 noosa keytable: adding map 2 violates explicit keymaps
line)
Feb  5 09:09:44 noosa rc: Starting keytable failed


Cheers

Tony


SN_Diamond wrote:
> 
> This time, an answer!  But not to any of the questions I asked here.
> 
> Red Hat 7J contains corrupt configuration files for the JIS 106-key keyboard
> layout (i.e. the layout which 99% of their Japanese customers surely have).
> Simon McCorkindale reported the problem in RH 6.2J and RH gave it "normal"
> priority.  After all, who needs to input characters like an underscore and
> two others, and who needs to remember which characters match the keycaps vs.
> which characters think they came from a US keyboard layout?  For other
> national layouts RH gave this problem a high priority, but for Japanese, no,
> looks like it'll never be fixed.
> 
> Anyway, in 1 out of my 4 installations of RH 7J, the keyboard worked right
> away!  The trick seemed to be to install the "server" configuration AND
> select to customize packages during installation AND make sure that X11 gets
> in during the initial installation.  As far as I could tell, the
> configuration files were still broken, but the keyboard magically worked
> anyway.
> 
> For the others, I found that /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is the magic file that
> needs editing.  Find the string "jp" and change it to "jp106".  I'm still
> not sure why this fixes it either though.  As far as I can tell, several
> other configuration files are still involved in mapping the keyboard and
> some of them are still broken.
> 
> By the way Dr. Breen, notice that RH 6.2J had a .2 in it.  It's no use
> waiting for any version at all.  We can get broken Linux systems for free or
> we can buy broken Windows 2000 systems for money.  Except, my employer paid
> money for RH 7.0J.  But it was still cheaper than W2000, especially if
> several dozen clients decide they want to connect.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Norman Diamond
> 
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