Testing 11.2 if usable, after problems finally got it installed and better than other 11s; BUT after selecting DVORAK at install it still put in qwerty, and even when reselected DVORAK at bootin screen via the F4 selection menu, OS continued to ignore my selection of DVORAK (again and again and again).
Hope someone knows a fix as presently looks like a full new install and possibly again abandoning the 11 series.

i actually just fixed this recently. assuming you intend to use the linux console you should put
in /etc/init.d/rc.keymap

if you want a dvorak layout in X, it's easy to configure with any desktop environment

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Thank you 2ck for reply; it should work, but the only listings for rc in /etc/init.d [am using laptop] are: rc rc0.d rc1.d rc2.d to rc6.d and rcS.d -- no keymap listed anywhere
Is there somewhere else in which to look?

so you are trying to get this in the console and not X right? what you do is different for each one

My keyboard is dvorak, so require it everywhere. Have tried all the rc files, and the 3 loadkey files, and many keymap files, but nothing applies. The keymap HOWTO relates to making own keymap, but not how to switch in one that already exists (/usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi_vndr/dvorak). At one point author says how easy it is to switch between keymaps, but neither gives an example, nor where to find that information.
Any clarification from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...ole-HOWTO.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/changing-l...-distributions

SOLVED??? Thank you 2ck for directing me to those sites as they are very helpful in a general sense, but just not for current problem.
The howtoforge site would have done the job for past releases, but for 11.2 the list of right side options under hardware no longer contains "keyboard layout", but just these 8: Hardware Info; Infrared Device; Joystick; Mouse on Text Console; Printer; Scanner; Sound; and TV Card -- no "Keyboard Layout" [one begins to believe the Novell people trying to deep-six Dvorak: no ability to keep it on install; disabling F4 Startup choice for dvorak; no fix for these bugs after over 4 months; and full elimination of Keyboard Layout options under Hardware].
The faqs.org site took much more testing, but in end still no good. The % loadkeys dvorak (and repeat with ANSI-dvorak) got the loading accomplished, but still wouldn't replace qwerty and no options to switch.Couldn't find XF86Config under locate and even search through all listings of config anywhere still provided neither that nor other useful option. Just trying xkbLayout "dvorak" got nowhere.Tried number of other possibilities with loadkey, keymap, keyboard, setkeycodes, etc., but nothing worked.
I repeat my thanks for your input and possibly some other ideas will occur to someone.
Interesting fact is that in checking /etc/sysconfig/keyboard there is an entry for KEYTABLE and reads: KEYTABLE="dvorak.map.gz" but no implementation of this in actual keyboard use.
Also did other checks on control settings and file configs -- all said DVORAK.
"Solved" problem by use of purchased dvorak keyboard (model 2020)which allows switching between dvorak and qwerty, and overrides built-in keyboard.
Thank you to all the input, but believe the problem lies deep within the OS program coding.