Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:57:05PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>
> Found the issue with the failure, but I don't like the solution, :-)
> One of the things keyboard-configuration doesn't ask, is whether there
> are alternative languages to the primary ones,
I suppose this is not going to change because it would make the
Debconf-based configuration dialogs too complex.
> so one of my trials (when dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
> didn't help out) was to set /etc/default/keyboard by hand, and I used
> the same configuration I use for X:
Yes, this is the right solution for you.
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="latam,us"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>
> Apparently console-setup didn't like something from the previous.
Actualy this is supported (unless there is some bug I don't know about).
When the the Debconf configuration says that there is an unsupported
layout and asks whether you want to keep the current configuration then
answer you want to keep it.
> Is this configuration meant for X as well?
Yes.
> So is it true then that alternative languages support is not
> supported?
It is supported if you edit /etc/default/keyboard by hand as you did.
> The other problem is that once one runs "dpkg-reconfigure
> keyboard-configuration" and then also "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup"
> the console does not change at all.
True. Other people have complained about this too. Unfortunately I
don't know a reliable way to test whether we are on the console or in X
and it is generally dangerous to reconfigure the console if X is active.
Anton Zinoviev
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