Puppy strange behaviour with latin1 keyboard (SOLVED)
Posted: Tue 18 Jun 2013, 07:42
Hello all,
Sorry if I'm using the wrong place to ask this question and please be aware I'm completely new to Puppy Linux, not to Linux, I use it for many years ... But i now tested PL on my desktop PC (that is running LMDE normally) and it works great on it, in fact I'm composing this post with Puppy Linux, but when I try to use PL on my wife's laptop the keyboard goes crazy.
Half of the keyboard can't be used and I just found out that all keys with a "blue" character on it (normally to be used with the Fn key) are set, NOT the normal character. As an example, when I type shift + O to get a "zero" it doesn't shows a zero but an asterisk "*", the character that is located on the same key, but in blue. ALL keys with a blue character on it behave the same way .... Installing the "azerty" option in PL doesn't solve the problem.
The keyboard is not broken, there is windows Xp on it for now and the keyboard works the way it has to do with Windows.
Sorry if this is confusing or not good explained, I'm not English ...
Acer Aspire 3100 with Azerty keyboard
be-latin1 keyboard (set in PL) = Azerty
Puppy Linux Precise 5.6.1
Again, on my desktop everything goes well, no problems with the usb-keybord.
It would be great to solve this problem because one of the coming days my wife is going to buy a new laptop (sorry, with Windows 8, she followed computer lessons and in that class they never heard about Linux) and I'm going to claim her old Acer for Linux. With Puppy, of course.
Many thanks for any suggestions how to solve this and to get a normal Azerty latin 1 keyboard on the Acer.
Greetings from Aarschot in Belgium/Europe
Vito49
Sorry if I'm using the wrong place to ask this question and please be aware I'm completely new to Puppy Linux, not to Linux, I use it for many years ... But i now tested PL on my desktop PC (that is running LMDE normally) and it works great on it, in fact I'm composing this post with Puppy Linux, but when I try to use PL on my wife's laptop the keyboard goes crazy.
Half of the keyboard can't be used and I just found out that all keys with a "blue" character on it (normally to be used with the Fn key) are set, NOT the normal character. As an example, when I type shift + O to get a "zero" it doesn't shows a zero but an asterisk "*", the character that is located on the same key, but in blue. ALL keys with a blue character on it behave the same way .... Installing the "azerty" option in PL doesn't solve the problem.
The keyboard is not broken, there is windows Xp on it for now and the keyboard works the way it has to do with Windows.
Sorry if this is confusing or not good explained, I'm not English ...
Acer Aspire 3100 with Azerty keyboard
be-latin1 keyboard (set in PL) = Azerty
Puppy Linux Precise 5.6.1
Again, on my desktop everything goes well, no problems with the usb-keybord.
It would be great to solve this problem because one of the coming days my wife is going to buy a new laptop (sorry, with Windows 8, she followed computer lessons and in that class they never heard about Linux) and I'm going to claim her old Acer for Linux. With Puppy, of course.
Many thanks for any suggestions how to solve this and to get a normal Azerty latin 1 keyboard on the Acer.
Greetings from Aarschot in Belgium/Europe
Vito49