Keymap bug at first live boot

[Member eltuno]

Hi

When creating a live usb and running it for the first time, you have to define root and demo passwords.

I choose french language at startup and my keyboard is azerty.

The step when you define passwords is confusing because the keymap changes from qwerty to azerty and back to qwerty (or the other way around maybe). So you end up entering a wrong password, although you might think you got it right. The passwords are recorded as if it were a qwerty keyboard.

This has no consequence when I boot and start MX. However if i try to open the stick content from another OS it just won’t work, I need to switch to qwerty.

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$udevadm trigger -nv
look for some line as:

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.0/0003:HEXV:HEXM.006C/input/input118/event2

where HEXV:HEXM is your keyboard’s vendor:model IDs.

get that line and:
$udevadm info -a ‘long-path’

a long list will return stdout:

looking at parent device ‘/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.0/0003:HEXV:HEXM.006C/input/input118’:
KERNELS==”input118″
SUBSYSTEMS==”input”
DRIVERS==””
ATTRS{uniq}==””
ATTRS{properties}==”0″
ATTRS{phys}==”usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.2/input0″
ATTRS{name}==”VendorName ModelName full string” ← look for a referring match

finally run:
$udevadm trigger (-v(n)) -sinput -aname=*pattern-match-from-referring-ATTRS* -cchange

or just run to restart the whole subsystem including mouse:
$udevadm trigger (-v(n)) -sinput -cchange

parenthesis are optional args

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