Ethiopian Setup: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:43, 23 October 2007

Edit /etc/rpm/macros.pilgrim and add am_ET to the list of %_install_langs.

LANG=am_ET.UTF-8

To use the XKB Ethiopian layout along with US layout, you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "et" a second layout:

XkbLayout "us,et"
XkbVariant "olpc2,basic"

Alternatively, you can do that on the fly by opening the developer console (Alt-=) and type:

setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et'

You can switch between IM in the Write activity through the RMB context menu, although the Amharic IM only appears to work the the "us" XKB keyboard layout.

You can toggle between the us and the et layouts by hitting the group switch key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below enter (labeled multiply/divide on US keyboards).

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 Development is being tracked here: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/EthiopianLocale
-* Update your OS image if it's older than <strong>612</strong>
+* Update your OS image if it's older than <strong>joyride-76</strong>
 * Boot, switch to the console (<code>alt-F1</code>) and login as root.
 * Edit <code>/etc/rpm/macros.pilgrim</code> and add <code>am_ET</code> to the list of <code>%_install_langs</code>.
-* Add the olpc-bernie yum repository:
- cd /etc/yum.repos.d
- wget http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc-bernie/olpc-bernie.repo
-* Install a few updates from olpc-bernie:
- yum update libX11
-* For glibc, yum will not work because we install the <code>i686</code> package even though <code>uname -m</code> says <code>i586</code>.  Additionally, a glibc utility ran by the post install scriptlet breaks on JFFS2 because it depends on an unsupported filesystem feature.  So we need to play a few dirty tricks around the package installation:
- cd /
- wget http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc-bernie/i386/os/glibc-2.6.90-17.i686.rpm
- wget http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc-bernie/i386/os/glibc-common-2.6.90-17.i386.rpm
- mount -t ramfs none /usr/lib/locale
- rpm -U --ignorearch glibc-2.6.90-17.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.6.90-17.i386.rpm
- mv /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive /
- umount /usr/lib/locale
- mv /locale-archive /usr/lib/locale
-NOTE: any version of glibc below 2.6.90-17 won't work!
 * Set the LANG environment variable in <code>/etc/sysconfig/i18n</code>