iphitus Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Hey all My laptop's keyboard plays up somtimes. Occassionally, randomly, the shift, alt and ctrl keys decide to act like they are toggled like caps lock. I might press shift to use block letters, and when i let it go sometimes it continues like shift is still down. I know that they keyboard, physically isnt damaged as it works perfectly fine in wondows. I was hoping someone else here has had the problem, or knows a solution as google hasnt been all too much help. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armondf Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 H there, what kind of notebook? Which distro/version? I found that using a different keymapping seems to resolve these kind of issues. Regards, Armond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Hey all My laptop's keyboard plays up somtimes. Occassionally, randomly, the shift, alt and ctrl keys decide to act like they are toggled like caps lock. I might press shift to use block letters, and when i let it go sometimes it continues like shift is still down. I know that they keyboard, physically isnt damaged as it works perfectly fine in wondows. I was hoping someone else here has had the problem, or knows a solution as google hasnt been all too much help. iphitus I think it's operator trouble!! Actually. I'm going to move this to the correct forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Ok, thanks ixthusdan. armondf: how? Its an Acer Travelmate 370, its in my sig. I run Arch Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armondf Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Do a cat on the following file, like so: cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and copy/paste the output here.... should look something like this.... KBCHARSET=iso-8859-15 KEYBOARD=us KEYTABLE=us DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY=no You should have some kind of admin configuration for things like keyboards, mice, screens etc in your distro. Try selecting a different keyboard there. Regards, Armond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 (edited) Do a cat on the following file, like so: cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and copy/paste the output here.... should look something like this.... KBCHARSET=iso-8859-15 KEYBOARD=us KEYTABLE=us DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY=no You should have some kind of admin configuration for things like keyboards, mice, screens etc in your distro. Try selecting a different keyboard there. Regards, Armond cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard No such file Arch doesnt have any GUI utils, but I can change the keymap in the Arch config file: /etc/rc.conf # KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymapsKEYMAP=us These are the available qwerty keyboards: /data/music : ls /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ bg-cp1251.map.gz gr.map.gz ro_win.map.gz bg-cp855.map.gz hu101.map.gz ru-cp1251.map.gz bg_bds-cp1251.map.gz hypermap.m4 ru-ms.map.gz bg_bds-utf8.map.gz il-heb.map.gz ru-yawerty.map.gz bg_pho-cp1251.map.gz il-phonetic.map.gz ru.map.gz bg_pho-utf8.map.gz il.map.gz ru1.map.gz br-abnt.map.gz is-latin1-us.map.gz ru2.map.gz br-abnt2.map.gz is-latin1.map.gz ru3.map.gz br-latin1-abnt2.map.gz it-ibm.map.gz ru4.map.gz br-latin1-us.map.gz it.map.gz ru_win.map.gz by.map.gz it2.map.gz se-fi-ir209.map.gz cf.map.gz jp106.map.gz se-fi-lat6.map.gz cz-cp1250.map.gz la-latin1.map.gz se-ir209.map.gz cz-lat2-prog.map.gz lt.baltic.map.gz se-lat6.map.gz cz-lat2.map.gz lt.l4.map.gz sk-prog-qwerty.map.gz cz.map.gz lt.map.gz sk-qwerty.map.gz defkeymap.map.gz mk-cp1251.map.gz sr-cy.map.gz defkeymap_V1.0.map.gz mk-utf.map.gz sv-latin1.map.gz dk-latin1.map.gz mk.map.gz tr_q-latin5.map.gz dk.map.gz mk0.map.gz tralt.map.gz emacs.map.gz nl.map.gz trq.map.gz emacs2.map.gz nl2.map.gz ua-utf-ws.map.gz es-cp850.map.gz no-latin1.doc ua-utf.map.gz es.map.gz no-latin1.map.gz ua-ws.map.gz et-nodeadkeys.map.gz no.map.gz ua.map.gz et.map.gz pc110.map.gz uk.map.gz fi-latin1.map.gz pl.map.gz us-acentos.map.gz fi-latin9.map.gz pl2.map.gz us.map.gz fi.map.gz pt-latin1.map.gz gr-pc.map.gz pt-latin9.map.gz Any suggestions? Edited June 27, 2004 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I'm now moving this to Other Distributions. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I'm now moving this to Other Distributions. :) just make me my own forum :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armondf Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Have you tried the other US one? I haven't played on Arch too much of late. Sorry if I can't be of too much help. Regards, Armond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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