Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes

Hardware for Some Keyboards Layouts Type 6 and 7 Not Available

Software support for some keyboard layouts has been added to the Solaris OS. This software gives users greater flexibility for keyboard input by modifying standard U.S. keyboard layouts to their own language needs.

Currently, no hardware is available for the following keyboard layout types:

Albania	Belarus
Belarus	French Canadian
Croatia	Czech
Denmark	Estonia
Hungary	Iceland
Latvia	Lithuania
Malta UK	Malta US
Poland	Brazil Portuguese
Romania	Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia	Slovenia

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds:

Workaround 1: To take advantage of this keyboard software, set up keyboard input using the kbd -s command line utility. For desktop sessions with the UTF-8 locale environment, use Input Method Preference Editor. If the required keyboard layout is not included in the kbd -s utility, use Workaround 2.
Workaround 2: Modify the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. For example, for the Canadian Type 6 keyboard, make the following changes:
1. Change the US6.kt entry to Canada6.kt in the /usr/openwin/share/etc/keytables/keytable.map file. The modified entry should read as follows:
  6 0 Canada6.kt
2. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.