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Old 05-18-2001, 10:08 AM   #1
F Murtz
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I have just installed debian 2.2 and the pipe key will not type pipe symbol it types the tilde symbol so I can not " | more" when using linux. It works in windows. I tried 3 keyboards all acted the same [I am new at this so I hope someone can help]
 
Old 05-18-2001, 11:12 AM   #2
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It sounds like you've got the wrong keyboard mapping selected. What keyboard layout is it? US, UK, etc..

You can try SHIFT+# or SHIFT+` thats where I often find it on keyboards with the 'wrong' layout. On my Slackware setup the keyboard layout is set using the 'loadkey uk.map' command, so you can try the equivilent (us.map etc) of that from the command line and see what happens. If that fixes if (its probably will) then you will want to put it in one of the relevant startup scripts. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea where that would be on Debian.

Cheers!

Jamie...
 
Old 05-18-2001, 11:16 AM   #3
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weird, what does the tilde key type?

anyway i think the utility is called 'kbd'. run as root and that should allow you to remap the keyboard.

haven't used deb for quite a while, so some one else will probably post with a better way.

 
Old 05-18-2001, 07:28 PM   #4
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I have tried UK and US both behave the same
ps the tilde key still types tilde
 
  


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