PT keyboard not US

[xears]

Hi there,
I'd appreciate if someone could help me making my keyboard behave

I have runned dpkg-reconfigure locales
and I have set KDE KControl to use pt keymap

However when I reboot my configuration is gone (I always get a US keyboard)
I have created a persistent disk (knoppix.img on hda7) but
I always get a us keyboard.

In order to have a pt layout|keymap I open KDE Control Center,
Keyboard Layout then I select Portugal
Check and uncheck "include latin layout" just to get the Apply button active.
When I press apply I have a pt keyboard and I can start typing normally on a shell.
All the symbols \ , ; are in place

But this is a lousy and annoying solution. How do I correct this?
TIA
xears


How do I correct this?

Thanks in advance
xears

[JohnnyH]

... I have created a persistent disk (knoppix.img on hda7) but I always get a us keyboard. ...

It's not fully clear to me what is your configuration, but you could try editing the kernel lines in
<your-path-to>/boot/grub/menu.lst
to replace
lang=us
with
lang=pt

[xears]

Doesn't lang change the language used in all the applications menus?
I want to read in english but write using a portuguese keyboard.

TIA
xears

[JohnnyH]

No. If you're hesitant about editing your files before you are sure, boot up the Knoppix live CD or DVD with the cheatcode lang=pt and try that - it amounts to the same thing. I just tried that for you in my system and it seems to do what you want
EDITED Sorry doesn't work as pt isn't an option in the cheatcodes; what I was seeing was the system defaulting to us keyboard (I use uk).

[JohnnyH]

Oops please disregard the above posting; pt doesn't seem to be offered in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig . (I think what I was seeing was the system defaulting to the us keyboard).
You might like to see if this works (it can't do any harm although it may need something additional) : insert the following additional text into /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

pt)
# Portuguese version
COUNTRY="pt"
LANG="pt_PT@euro"
KEYTABLE="pt"
XKEYBOARD="pt"
KDEKEYBOARD="pt"
CHARSET="iso8859-15"
# Additional KDE Keyboards
KDEKEYBOARDS="de(nodeadkeys),us,fr"
TZ="Europe/Lisbon"
;;

between lines 154 and 155 ( better check this in your copy ).

[JohnnyH]

You might like to see if this works (it can't do any harm although it may need something additional) : insert the following additional text into /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

pt)
# Portuguese version
COUNTRY="pt"
LANG="pt_PT@euro"
KEYTABLE="pt"
XKEYBOARD="pt"
KDEKEYBOARD="pt"
CHARSET="iso8859-15"
# Additional KDE Keyboards
KDEKEYBOARDS="de(nodeadkeys),us,fr"
TZ="Europe/Lisbon"
;;

between lines 154 and 155 ( better check this in your copy ).

[JohnnyH]

Eureka ! I remastered Knoppix 5.1.1 with the code for pt in
/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig
as above, and with
lang=us replaced with lang=pt
in
/boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg

On booting the iso in VMware Player :-
- The symbol and flag colour for PT came up in the KDE Tray
- The display language remained English
- The keyboard symbol keys had changed to the following (shifted versions first)...

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ !"#$%&/()=?»
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ 1234567890

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ QWERTYUIOP* last UK keyboard character nonexistent
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ qwertyuiop+ last UK keyboard character nonexistent

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ ASDFGHJKLǪlº last UK keyboard character nonexistent
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ asdfghjklçº last UK keyboard character nonexistent

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ >ZXCVBNM;:_
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ <zxcvbnm,.-

which I hope look OK to you ?

[xears]

Thanks JohnnyH for your replies

However, the solution you gave me didn't work on my system.

I've edited /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig as you told me to
and I'm booting with these codes

knoppix lang=pt desktop=fluxbox fromhd=/dev/hda1 home=scan myconfig=scan apm=power-off noideraid nofirewire dma noprompt noeject

bammm.... en keyboard

I'm having some problems with my persistent disk (knoppix.img)
On every boot I get messages telling me that it wasn't cleanly unmounted.
I don't know if this is the cause but
I am editing /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig again
and the portuguese block is still there. So at least this file is ok.

You said that you have remastered Knoppix.
Do I have to do that too? How?
I'm new to knoppix

Please help
TIA
xears

[JohnnyH]

...However, the solution you gave me didn't work on my system.
...
You said that you have remastered Knoppix. Do I have to do that too? How? ...

You didn't completely try the solution that I gave you, because the remastering is a necessary part of it

...
I'm having some problems with my persistent disk (knoppix.img)
On every boot I get messages telling me that it wasn't cleanly unmounted.
...

I've never used the 'pseudo-installation' method, with persistent image and so on, but I see that you have another thread in the Forum on that so I leave discussion of that problem with the better experts there ...
...
... but an essential point, as I understand it, is that it still involves operation from the compressed KNOPPIX file. If so, that is where you need to edit the /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig file .
You might be able to do that 'in situ' using a sub-set of the re-mastering procedures involving
un-compressing, mount -o loop ... , copy to working folder, editing and re-compressing
but as you are new to Knoppix it would probably be easiest for you to directly follow the remastering procedures on the Forum
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto
to create a new, clean remastered Knoppix.iso image and regenerate your system from that.

This is likely to be too big to fit on a CD so it's best if you can burn it as a DVD.
On the other hand, you may be able follow the procedures just far enough to create the new KNOPPIX compressed file, then copy that to the appropriate place in your /dev/hda1 (as you quoted fromhd=/dev/hda1)

[xears]

Thanks JohnnyH for your enlightenment

This 'pseudo-installation' method, with persistent image and so on as you call it
is driving me nuts...
I'll get into the adventures of remastering later on.

I'll try to config my keyboard, install some apps, create a new iso, copy it to hda1 and
run from there.

Thanks a lot JohnnyH
xears