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setting the default keyboard layout on boot



Hi
I'm running testing, recently upgraded after being away for the summer, and 
when I boot my default keylayout is no longer set.

It used to say something like "setting default keymap dvorak" - and I'd have 
a dvorak layout on login, now it says nothing and I've got qwerty.  

A little research indicated that I should be able to use install-keymap to 
set up my default.  But this seems to have no effect whatsoever.  Odd because 
'loadkeys dvorak' will have the desired effect, but that doesn't fix my 
problem of the default.

I even tried copying /usr/share/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.kmap.gz to 
/etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz , but no effect.  any ideas?

Bjorn



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