Please move this thread if needed but I need to talk to dinosaur knight.
I have 3200 Averatec and tried to get Suse 9.1 to work to no avail numerous times. Being that you are asking about setting up the keyboard, I assume that the installation for you went through fine. If you have any tips, please let me know because I would really like to get Suse working on my laptop.
So the problem I'm having with the installation probably has to do with the video driver. The install goes by fine but at reboot, it starts loading the runlevels and it goes all the way to runlevel 5. My screen goes black after reboot and someone told me that going to runlevel 5 could be the problem so I changed it to stop at runlevel 3. Once it stops at runlevel 3, I get a login prompt so I log in. After that I try to start xserver but once I type "startx" it'll go into the black screen.
Thanks for any help that anyone can provide. I apologize in advance for this post is probably in the wrong place but I figured everyone here may have already experienced similar problems to what I'm having. BTW, on Suse 9.0 I have the same keyboard problem that you are having.