Hello, Everyone
As far as I know, the only change that I have made to my system recently was
installing the openmotif updates (which I have since uninstalled, and then
reinstalled the previous versions)
The problem is as follows: if I enter into non-graphical mode (console / ctrl
alt f1-f6) the mappings of the following keys are messed up:
~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = \
[ ]
; '
, . /
f1 f2 f3 f4 f5
y z
In the above mentioned mode, those keys now produce the following output:
KEY Correct Incorrect
~ ~ ` ~ ^
2 2 @ 2 “
4 4 $ 4 #
6 6 ^ 6 @
7 7 & 7 /
8 8 * 8 (
9 9 ( 9 )
0 0 ) 0 =
- - _ \ ?
[ [ { @ \
] ] } + *
; ; : [ {
' ' " ] }
z z Z y Y
y y Y z Z
F1 A
F2 B
F3 C
F4 D
F5 E
My regular user password contains a "y" As a result, I cannot login as myself
into console mode. My root password does not contain any x's, y's or any of
the other problematic keys shown above.
I am typing this email, using kmail, logged into KDE (branch 3.5) on the same
system that I am having this problem with. As you can see from the fact that
I was able to type up the chart that you see above, if I am in X, the keyboard
works as expected. It is only when I do "ctrl | alt | f1-f6" that the
problem occurs. In fact, "alt f7" USED to take me back to X, but now I have
to hit "alt f8"
My keyboard layout (in kcontrol) is listed as Generic 104-key PC, which is
correct. Just to be sure, I am now going to reboot (Sob :() and see what
happens.......
Well, now everything works fine. But if any of you have any ideas about what
went wrong, I would be glad to know. Because I should not have had to reboot
to fix this.
Have a Great Day,
Steven P. Ulrick
