On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:18:42PM +0100, Alan Lord wrote: > Hi all, > > I built a fairly recent LFS (SVN 20061505) and all is fine but I can't > use the \ and | key on my keyboard (I have a UK pc105 keyboard). This is > the key to the left of the z. > > As you can see from above, they work in M$oft but when I switch over to > my linux box they stop working. Both at the console and in X. > > I have configured this Linux build for the first time to use en_GB.UTF-8. > > I am wondering if this has something to do with it??? > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Thanks > > Al >
Is this a new keyboard ? How is it connected ? You are saying that nothing shows with 'showkey' and nothing with 'xev' ? Did the same hardware work on any identifiable older kernel ? I'm very interested in this, because I've had a similar problem since the back end of last year, but lacked sufficient time to try to get to the bottom of it. In my case, I use a PS/2 KVM switch to share the screen/mouse/kbd between 4 machines. One of these is a G5 mac, with a usb connection, and there the \ key on a UK pc keyboard doesn't show up (my workaround is to specify a US layout, and try to remember which machine I'm using - my laptop is a mac, so I'm fairly used to US-style layouts). To clarify, the other desktops use a UK layout AND en_GB.UTF-8, and when I first saw this problem I was not using UTF-8. At first I assumed it was a problem in usb|hid, but playing with all the available zeroed bytes in various kernel keyboard tables produced no results. My guess is that something in the input subsystem is broken (the earliest kernel I tried was 2.6.14), but it obviously doesn't affect many people. Unfortunately, kernels < 2.6.16 are unpleasant on that box (fans on permanently), and kernels < 2.6.15 don't have a working network, so I can't test arbitrary early kernels to see what works, but knowing when it broke might motivate me to take another look. There was a similar breakage around 2.6.2, according to google, but that should be ancient history. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
