d3ac0n Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Ok, this is a strange one... I have Mandrake Linux 10.1 Community installed on my IBM Thinkpad i1400 laptop on a dual-boot with WinXP. My issue is that the M key doesn't work right in Mandrake. It works normally when I boot into XP, but when I'm in Linux I can't just tap the key and get a standard lowercase 'm'. If I hold down Shift I can get a Capital 'M', if I hit Capslock and Shift I can get a lowercase 'm', but I can't just hit the key! Mandrake installed with a generic 105 keyboard layout, and thinking it was a layout issue (might still be) I changed the keyboard to the only Thinkpad entry in the Keyboards list. No change. Tried searching the net and the forums, and the answer I keep coming up with is a layout issue. But I'd really rather not just run through all the layouts until I get one that works, simply because A. that will take FOREVER and B. there is a chance that I might choose a totally incompatible layout and lose keyboard functionality altogether. (which would be a bad thing.) Has anyone else out there run into this issue yet? and can anyone else point me to a solution? Thanks in advance, D3ac0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 that is odd.... I had an issue with the @ and " being interchanged and the | not working at all but this was due to the keyboard selected for gnome not being set to the correct manufacturer and model. Do you get the same issue in both Command Line environment and Graphical Environment or just in one? Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Just try playing with a few different layouts, 102, 103, and maybe see if there is any specific to ibm or your laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3ac0n Posted December 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 In response to your question Leo, it happens both in the GUI AND in a terminal window. Which is really annoying when trying to type things like "urpmi" or fill out web-forms with my real name, which happens to have several m's in it! lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 leo: btw, that would be a UK keyboard layout :). I have a US keyboard at work and a UK one at home, lots of fun switching between the two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 IBM specs for your machine suggest it is an 85 key keyboard which ought to narrow down your list of layouts (although this sounds odd) but my guess is what you already seem to know, you need to find the correct layout. Leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Have you tried an alternative keyboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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