Ubuntu Korean(Hangul) key map configuration

Ok, I did install Ubuntu(finally!) and it worked pretty fine!

Since it was the first linux other than previous red hat boxes, it was kinda scary since I thought only red hat was interested in user-friendly environment.

But while installing and changing some configurations, I realized that this linux is really close to the product that is ‘acceptable’ for regular users.

Anyway, since I wanted to type Korean characters under the English environment, I had to some configurations.

Frankly, I spend sometime to work on the Korean input program. I used to use nabi, but there was SCIM which looked great. But it didn’t understand my keyboard correctly, and it even didn’t start at first! (since my default language was English.)

This site contains THE solution that I had.

The second problem was, even though I was successful in starting and using SCIM, still I had to use ctrl+space to change the input character. I wanted to use my Korean/English & Hangul/Hanj keys.

I DID try a lot of things that can affect the global range in the box. (But I really didn’t need to since I am the only user for this laptop.)Anyway, I changed a file [kr] at
[/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/]

partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols “hangul_keys” {
include “us”
name[Group1]= “Korean”;
key { [ Hangul ] };
//key { [ Hangul_Hanja ] };
};

which used to be……………..

partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols “hangul_keys” {
include “us”
name[Group1]= “Korean”;
key { [ Hangul ] };
key { [ Hangul_Hanja ] };
};

Now it works almost perfect!!!!perfect!!!!

Fedora Core 4 - Screenshot

Still have to solve Nespot(wireless lan provided in my campus) login problem,
and a few configurations. But it works fine now, and I don't see any major drawback that I shouldn't use it for everyday use.

(Yes, but I am using my XP at this moment, since I subscribed for this streaming music service -that lets me to listen to music online for a fixed price. about 3 dollars!- and they only provide windows verion of their app.)


But the xmms with mp3 plugin installed, didn't work fine. It does work, but it doesn't sound very nice as other apps. Probably because they are not allowed to use the proper codec to decode, or my soundcard configuration had a problem.


I should give a shot to install Suse in May.

Installing Fedora Core 4 on IBM T42

I have installed Fedora Core 4 at the second hdd on my IBM T42 laptop.

The overall installing procedure were pretty clean and neat. On the first trial, I chose the custom packages, but somehow the install process failed and rebooted.

At the point, I was little scared, since I didn't backup my data on the other hdd, which was the master one. If i maked a mistake, it could've been a disaster.

But, since I love risky stufss(or just simply too lazy to copy a few giga data to other usb hdd), I tried again right away. Brave, huh? But I compromised to choose the workstation package to be safe. And that was all. I had linux installed on my laptop!

For the referece, here's what I've done.

- I wanted to dual boot between Windows XP and linux.

- But, I knew that installing GRUB or Lilo at the MBR on my master(1st) hdd could cause a problem. (After the installing, I read that some people could not use the "access IBM" button any more when booting their systems.)

- So, I decided to use windows' boot loader.

- I installed GRUB at the first partition of the 2nd hdd, which was, in my case, /dev/hdc1.

- Rebooted. On the windows I downloaded bootpart to get the bootsect image from the linux partition. (detailed how-to documents can be found at the bootpart page.)

- Then I rebooted, and I could see the OS selection screen when the system starts to boot.

- Then I changed the grub configuration not to wait for user selection.

- I had to do some locale setting to read and write Korean, but still keeping the menus in English. this guy have been a very great help.

- I downloaded a GNOME theme from http://www.gnome-look.org/ with mac keyword.

But still there are things that I have to fix.

- wireless connection. Even with the proper firmware and stuff, I could not use the wireless lan with WEP and other security features.

- location(network) profile manager. I need a better one. The one included in the FC4 sucks. It's not stable at all.

- Hibernation. This is a very usefull feature for laptops. I don't want to shut down and boot everytime.

- Netspot(my school's wireless lan service) availability? If this thing doesn't work for Netspot, I won't use linux that much in school, cuz I have to connect the lines and do IP configuration everytime.