Checking the Layout configuration

Check the manufacturing Data

(information that comes with the laptop, and should state what language it should be in)

• Boot into the ok prompt
• type: .mfg-data
• next to LA should be the code for the three letter country code of the laptop

Changing mfg data (with q2c27a only)

You can't easily do this with the firmware we make available to the public, though the tag editing page does explain how.

1. Install special firmware
2. Reboot holding the X game button and then hit escape to get to the OK prompt
3. Type 'change-tag TN <value string>' where TN is the two letter tag and value string is the new value

 Example: change-tag LA RUS
  (changes the laptop to russian)

Check the Internationalization File

• In a terminal, type: cat /home/olpc/.i18n
• The i18n file will look something like:

    LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

• LANG="{two letter language code}_{two letter country code}.UTF-8" (the country code us only used if there are multiple countries with that language)

country codes

See also Olpc-utils for implementation details

Check the keyboard mappings

• In a terminal, type: cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
• The keyboard file will look something like:

    KEYTABLE="us"
    XKB_MODEL="olpc"
    XKB_LAYOUT="us"
    XKB_VARIANT="olpc"

• The XKB_LAYOUT is the two letter country code of the laptop. country codes
• Changing this will change the keyboard mapping that the laptop uses.
• The KEYTABLE is the keymap for the Linux text console. It supports fewer keyboards than X11. The complete list is in /lib/keyboard/keymaps.
• You can create a file /home/olpc/.kbd with per-user overrides of the system defaults.

See also Olpc-utils for implementation details