I just submitted this in a bug report. Thought I might show the work-around to users of a key-map other than 'us'. Description of problem: When executing the /bin/loadkeys command the keymap is not changed and loadkeys exits with an error. It appears to me that there is an extra leading forward-slash that causes the problem. See my error message below. [root@xxx root]# old.loadkeys dvorak Loading //lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak input in flex scanner failed I copied in the loadkeys binary from my RH8 box and now it works fine. [root@xxx root]# loadkeys dvorak Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/dvorak.map.gz Ben Dugdale --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses]