Fossil here, too. I sympathize. I'm not sure what exact problem you are experiencing, but one way to start to get a handle on it is to create a USB thumb drive with a "live" version of one or more other Linux distributions and try booting to it to see whether they get a reasonable keyboard configuration out-of-the-box.
I have an old netbook where I mangled the keyboard connector, so it has to have an external keyboard to do anything. And there's also this possibility: https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator -- jmcg On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:21 PM Bruce Labitt <bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > Feeling like a bit of a fossil and not knowing what files do what, or > where things are located. Need to fix an obnoxious problem with a > keyboard and realize I just don't know even how to investigate this > anymore. What are recommended sources for a modern overview of system > files, purposes and organization? > > Think my laptop now believes my Logitech keyboard is the default > keyboard. This is bad, because it has a different number of keys and > the mapping is different. This a royal pia. I am typing with a mouse. > Even the space bar doesn't work. Practically it makes a laptop into a > desktop system. I don't even know where to start since a lot of the > Linux cheese moved, in the past 10 years. > > System76 Oryx 6 Pro laptop. POPOS 22.04. > > Any tips or pointers to well written overviews on the modern > organization would be appreciated. Perhaps I could learn enough to at > least know the correct search terms. > > TIA, Bruce > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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