[hardy alpha5] swiss keyboard layout configuration is wrong

[Simon Wenner]

I installed hardy with the hardy-alternate-i386.iso (Alpha 5) and I have choosen the keyboard layout "Switzerland" -> "German".

Whith resulted in this entry in /etc/X1/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Which is wrong. Many special chars. don't work like that. e.g. "@"

I think it sould be:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
        Option "XkbVariant" "de"
EndSection

Like that all my keys are working correctly.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you also attach /etc/default/console-setup, please?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Very odd. I wonder why XKBVARIANT didn't get set.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I haven't been able to reproduce this in my tests. Could you please tell me exactly what you chose at every step, starting from the CD boot menu? If you're using a language other than English, then just give me the text from the language you're using - don't worry about translating back to English.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Oh, I only need what you chose up to right after the keyboard selection step early on in the installer, not all the way through.

[Simon Wenner (nowic)]

I forgot to mention, that XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch" was also set (correctly!), but I removed it by hand, because it was a bad decision.

I used the alternate CD and selected the language "Deutsch" (German) right at the start. But I didn't change the keymap. It gets set to "Germany" by default. I should have choosen "Swiss German". But I didn't.
Then I started the installer.... and it does not ask for language and area anymore. The German keyboard layout gets set.

Ok, now I realise that I should have choosed the layout "Swiss German" right at the beginnig.

If I choose "English" at the start (and no changes to the keyboard layout), the installer asks me, in the first step of the installation, for my language and the area I live in. I can selceted the language "German" and the area "Schweiz", which works fine.

In my opinion this behavior is bad. Because in theory the language settings of the installer could be different then the language of my installed system on my harddrive. And It's not intuitive for a user that the initial start screen settings before the installation will affect my installed system.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Ah. This is bug 64058. I think it should probably not be too hard to fix, but needs an hour or two of me staring at gfxboot-theme-ubuntu.