Bug#277365: (Mostly) successful installation report
> 2. Keyboard layout woes (X again)
> FYI: I selected language English, country Germany and keyboard layout German
> I suspect many Germans use a setup like this because a consistently English
> system is often better than an inconsistent half-German half-English one.
> This choice might have an effect on the problems described below, I just
> don't know.
> - Textmode console had the correct keyboard layout from the start
> - I had to change the keyboard model from "pc104" to "pc105" in XF86Config-4
> - After this change, the keyboard layout was correct in gdm but wrong in the
> Gnome session itself. Curiously enough, simply starting the Gnome Keyboard
> configuration and hitting "Reset to Defaults" in the "Layouts" tab fixed
> the problem.
This issue cannot be sorted out as long as keyboard settings in
console and X are completely different AND you choose English as
language.
The localization-config (l-c) package would have properly configured a
German keyboard provided you choose German as language. For various
reasons, l-c relies on the locale for pre-configuring several
packages, including the X server.
So, next time, I recommend you choose German as language. Be confident
in the German translators, they make good work...:-)...and the
installation will even be smoother.
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