[YLUG] password entry and keyboard country settings

Alex Armani alex.armani at rocketmail.com
Wed Dec 10 16:14:26 UTC 2014 

Hi Mike, it's all fixed now. Thankyou so much for your help. On Ubuntu we, or rather, I, advise to boot off a dvd. The USB install fails, unless you use use the dvd you have created as the source for the usb ie not the .iso image file. So unplug everything like usb you don't need. I have to be carefull here as my bluetooth dongle is in my usb hub with another webcam, usb keyboard & usb mouse & USB DVD Writer etc. Reboot. Enter bios password. Boot off the dvd, and then wait.

And here's the most important bit.

Press F3, and set your country. Then F2 the same. Now, having previously checked the dvd for errors, the last thing you want is an aborted install because of a read error. Then, do the network install option. This is what I always do, making sure the electricity is not likely to go down, or the internet.

Now make a coffee, mine's 2 sugars, blue top milky, and sit and watch. Don't touch anything. Even loading FireFox to read the release notes. This is not the official way to install 14.1o or anything, but it is the best I have found.

All the official guyz are busy with the LTS stuff, so I have taken over for 14.1o support. Unicorn Stiudio 14:1o ThatIs. Ubuntu Studo is basically Xbuntu, with a low latency kernel, with all the music, video and photography software, and all the codecs installed as default, so this should apply for other flavours of Ubuntu. I use the MATE desktop.

I advise if you have to boot the live install, is to load GParted, and then remove all Linux partitions, even your Linux swap partition. Reboot and do the Net install.

Result, a dual booting, with boot menu, Clean Install of 64bit Windows 7 HP, with all the updates, and a Clean 64bit Unicorn 14.1o install. This is the current state of my machine. Well my old Toshiba Satellite laptop. I've given the ARM Chromebook {White} to my fiance. She loves it. :)


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On Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 14:46, Alex Armani <alex.armani.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
 

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>Cheers Mike; fixed now. Got root on my home, and entered the following.
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>sudo chown -R alex: alex
>sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
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>On 8 December 2014 at 14:42, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Alex
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>>Just a possible thought on this - I use arch and not Ubuntu so your solution this this may be different to mine, but one thing that happens is that when logged in to KDE you set your locale and keyboard to UK/GB, but prior to login to KDE at the login greeter stage the system is using the keyboard settings for X - so on my own systems I always check that I set X to use the UK keyboard which in arch means having a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf containing:
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>>#
>># Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
>># We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
>># and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
>># matches everything but joysticks.
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>>Section "InputClass"
>>        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
>>        MatchIsPointer "on"
>>        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>>        Driver "evdev"
>>EndSection
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>>Section "InputClass"
>>        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
>>        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>>        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>>        Driver "evdev"
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>>        # Keyboard layouts
>>        Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
>>EndSection
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>>then the rest of the sections in that file that don't need any keyboard settings - 
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>>In Ubuntu the file may be in a different location but there will likely be an equivalent? i.e. you need to set your locale and keyboard for X separately to setting it within KDE.
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>>Hope this helps.
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>>Mike C
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>>On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:04 PM, ALEX ARMANI <alex.armani at live.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Can only log on as guest. Ubuntu Studio 14.1o 64 bit.
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>>>Howdy folks. I'm running 64 bit Unicorn Studio. Installed the KDE Desquetop, reset, and now, it won't accept my password now. Password though is ok cos I can log in after ctrl alt f2. Is this a Ubuntu prob or a Studio prob or a KDE problem? Who to ask I never know so post her often / usually. 
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>>>aha, tia from Alex & 0L1K The Panther.
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