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guysoft / RealtimePi

An out-of-the-box raspebrrypi/raspbian distro with a realtime kernel
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Keyboard mapping #37

Closed TenguBoss closed 2 years ago

TenguBoss commented 2 years ago

Aloha Guy,

Thank you for providing the compiled realtimepi kernel. I have been experimenting with it for a couple of days and I am writing to l;et you know about a peculiarity of the set up. I have noticed it in both 0.5.0 and 0.6.0 buster distros.

I believe that the default keyboard mapping is set to a locale other than US. I changed the default pi account password to one with a lot of special characters using a US keyboard directly connected to the Pi. A few minutes later I tried to ssh to the Pi from another machine with, yet another, US keyboard. To my surprise the password was rejected every time. It took me a few tries to figure out that the default locale might be GB and only because the British pound symbol showed up when I tried to type #.

I cleared the hurdle with

$ localectl set-keymap us

and I've been happily performing cyclictests ever since.

Since I haven't seen anything about keyboard mappings mentioned in the README I thought it might be worth bringing it up here.

Cheers, BUI

guysoft commented 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi OS default is keyboard is UK. Its not part of RealtinePi. Its set in the official rou repo. See https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen/blob/5d044ba71b7eba33860fdbf222a9a29ae42691e9/README.md#config KEYBOARD_LAYOUT section

TenguBoss commented 2 years ago

Thank you! It makes perfect sense now.