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Hi, please help me... I bought a brand new little Acer Aspire and it came with Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.3.E. I live in FInland so I need Scandinavian keyboard settings but cant find them in the software settings. Now wrong letters come when I try to write anything and Scandinavian letters are missing... ;) The software seems to use English settings (letters EN below the screen) but I can't seem to change them into any language. Do I have download a different driver for the Scandinavian keyboard or something? Where can I get that? Anne

Thanks for the phone number. I managed to find the solution on the web from a Finnish person and here is the link to the page in case anyone else needs help in this. The idea is, you go, starting on the main view, the file: Files > My Documents > File > Terminal > xfterm4 and there, on the last row, (XkbLayout) instead of letters us write fi, us and save it. Likewise change the "nationality" in another place. Do the same opening process again and in the terminal write: sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf Here find the row named Keyboard layout, and change likewise the letters us to fi, us. Save and reboot the machine. I could suppose this works also if you want to change the keyboard to work in Swedish or Norwegian - you guys know better if you have to use letters se or no instead for the right language. The instructions in Finnish: www.thatsabsurd.net/2008/07/acer-aspire-onen-ongelmat/#comments http://www.thatsabsurd.net/2008/07/acer-aspire-onen-ongelmat/#comments

What originally happened is that you installed your system with the english language by default. so the file used to determine keyboard layout is tellin the script it should use the us keyboard. This solution is clearly a hack, you can either edit "/etc/sysconfig/i18n" or the file mentioned bellow. i chose the latter because i dont know what other effects changing the sysconfig file would have. This hack works for situations where you have installed the system with the english setting, and none other. By reading the file hacked bellow you can try and find out where to alter it. Anne's solution isnt complete, but i managed to translate the original finish thread. here goes the complete solution: The quick and dirty solution : Press Alt+F2 and type xterm in the window that appears. hit enter and you will be in a terminal window type setxkbmap [Language_code] - for example setxkbmap pt because i wanter the portuguese keyboard Ok now for the permanent solution : If you still on the terminal just type(if your not look above for a way to do it) sudo mousepad /usr/bin/xkb_plugin_set_xorg.sh now go to the end of the file. look for the last line that starts with sed -e '/XkbLayout/c\ Option ' you should read something like "us" on it, change it to your language setting. in my case, since i wanted portuguese i changed it to pt,(for sweden i think it might be se) save and close the file for the last touch do (still on the terminal) sudo mousepad / etc/X11/xorg.conf Look for the "xkblayout" line, it should read us, again change it to your language setting save and close reboot the system. you should have everything working now. You can even change the keyboard setting by clicking in the little icon in the lower bar.

Sapien's solution looks good - but when I change the language code in the files /usr/bin/xkb_plugin_set_xorg.sh and /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "us" to "fr" the only difference is that the icon at the bottom of the screen changes from EN to UNKNOWN. The temporary solution works fine "setxkbmap fr"! I have checked and re-edited the files and they look fine. Is there something else to do??

Ok, i have similar Problem-my default language is German, and among other Languages i can choose finnisch, swedisch ant other, but i need croatioan/serbian and this language is not in my Tastatur Menu. What does it mean: do i have to install it or what? I have there 20-30 Languages but noth Croatioan. So if anybody knows how to help me, i would appreciate it. And yes, i am also using Aspire One with linux linpus, and i am totally newbie. Thanks

Hi, well i solved my problems by making one update (software install option)-i selected under "languages" the needed language, downloaded it and in setup activated it-all funcitions perfectly.