Re: [TCLUG:14517] Console keyboard weirdness

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

there was a problem with debian a couple weeks ago, where it would freak
out on reboot, and switch the keyboard mappings into french mode.. 

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, John R. Sheets wrote:

> We just had some goofy power-cycling problems here at work this morning,
> which led to some of our machines going down and back up an
> indeterminate number of times, sometimes during fsck'ing.  Everything
> seems fine, fortunately, except for some strangeness with my system's
> keyboard mappings--but only in console mode.  Things work fine in X.
> 
> The symptoms are that a few choice keys are swapped.  The q & a keys
> were backwards, as were the z & w and some others.  The number keys and
> punctuation keys were jumbled, too.  But 80% of the alphanumeric keys
> were correct.  But like I said, everything works fine in X.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting this?  I don't know much
> about tty keymappings.
> 
> John
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