F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

[James Laska]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 19:49 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> I just tried the rc2 live image on a laptop as a test this evening.
> 
> It boots, and Gnome 3 loads up - and I can connect to wireless. I yum
> updated the main gnome* and xorg* packages as well as the libgnome*
> package set - and then set about seeing gnome 3 behaviour.
> 
> However I have a UK keyboard - when I went to settings, and selected
> keyboard I get a crash on control-center - so I can't change keyboard
> to UK.
> 
> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select
> English(UK) - and when I logout and back in that sticks - but whatever
> I do I cannot get a UK keyboard!
> 
> I also looked for settings in gdm ahead of login to see if a UK
> keyboard option exists - and I can't find any -
> 
> Does anyone know of a workaround at this stage?  Without a UK keyboard
> it is difficult to progress since many passwords use have other
> characters than A-Z/0-9 ....

What is present in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ?

Thanks,
James

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