Original message from: Kevin Maciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On 16 Mar 2001 19:15:39 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
>> Anybody getting the same problem I have since moving to 2.4.2?
>> Two keys on my keyboard ` and ' keys have to be pressed twice to
>> register! Anything typed after pressing the key once is dropped.
>> Apparently something like this was posted on kernel traffic. It's
>> happened with every kernel so far in cooker. It didn't happen when
I
>> was running 2.4.0
>I presume you have selected a keyboard map which uses these for
accents?
>Try `e and see if you get an e-grave. Fuzzy recollection, but I
think
>you need to choose "US Keyboard" and not "US International Keyboard"
>when you setup. Of course, it might be a different problem, but
that's
>what happened to me :-)
>
Thanks for you suggestion, it fixed the problem. During the original
install it was the only option it gave me! But afterwards I changed it
to
plain US keyboard. Chances are it never changed since DrakConf was
segfaulting so much originally.
Excuse my not noticing the accented vowels(blush)
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