Thanks a lot! I copied in your keyboard sections and it works great now. Mine
said gb instead of pc in the geometry field. But all works now. For some
reason I couldn't run showkey. The error was that X is also reading
/dev/console. Was I supposed to run it in console mode? The problem is only in
X. But I suppose that's academic. Thanks.......
- Paul
Matthew Sayler wrote:
> I remember back in '99 when Paul Sack wrote:
> > I have no idea why, but in X, some of the symbols on my keyboard are
> > incorrectly mapped. i.e. the pipe comes out as ~ and I cannot make a
> > pipe (which makes some things very difficult). The " and @ are switched.
> > The ~ key comes out as �. I am using a 101-key compatible keyboard and
> > the english keyboard map.
>
> FWIW, this is the keyobard section from my 3.3.2.a.debian.has.lots.of.numbers
> XF86Config file:
>
> Section "Keyboard"
> Protocol "Standard"
> AutoRepeat 500 30
> LeftAlt Meta
> RightAlt Meta
> ScrollLock Compose
> RightCtl Control
> XkbKeycodes "xfree86"
> XkbTypes "default"
> XkbCompat "default"
> XkbSymbols "us(pc101)"
> XkbGeometry "pc"
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "pc101"
> XkbLayout "us"
> XkbOptions "ctrl:nocaps"
> EndSection
>
> How does this differ from yours (esp. Model, Geometry)?
>
> What happens when you use showkey to print out the key codes from
> the given icky keys?
>
> cesum [214] [7:16am] [/home/mpsayler] ->
> showkey
> kb mode was XLATE
>
> press any key (program terminates after 10s of last keypress)...
> keycode 54 press
> keycode 41 press
> keycode 41 release
> keycode 54 release
> keycode 54 press
> keycode 3 press
> keycode 3 release
> keycode 54 release
> keycode 54 press
> keycode 40 press
> keycode 40 release
> keycode 54 release
> keycode 54 press
> keycode 43 press
> keycode 54 release
> keycode 43 release
>
> (54 is lshift, 41 ~, 3 @, 40 ", 43 |)
>
> Matt
>
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