I selected a 105 Key international UK keyboard via the graphical installer, and tested it in the text entry box provided. However, after installation, the delete key does not work - it produces a tilde (~) and a beep when pressed in the console window. On logging out, the following (paraphrased) error can be seen in the text wind-down : Couldn't load XKB Keymap Together with something about not being able to find symbol ""
Confirmed. UK101 works correctly UK105 does not.
Hi, I have a similar problem with my Swedish keyboard (and noted one more at Bugzilla #18987). First, I upgraded to RH 7.0 from RH 6.2 and my keys were OK, but then I noted and reported Bugzilla #18748 and eventually gave up as none of my attemps were any good. So, I re-installed RH 7.0 and now I cannot use Backspace, or any of the Alt- keys to produce @, #, $, {, [, ], } or \. [I cannot even write my own e-mail!] I have tried both "pc101" and "pc102" together with "se". As this is the third report on a similar issue with non-US keyboards, there might be something general about it. Meanwhile, is there something I can do to get a working keyboard. The effort of manually entering a keyboard table seems quite intimidating. Cheers, Rudy Mansgaten
Assigning to console-tools; that's where the keymaps are.
Assigning to XFree86 - since console-tools doesn't make a difference between pc102 and pc105, this must be about X keymaps; those are in XFree86.
I have a similar problem. The pound sign comes out as e with a diaeresis and the character set handling in mutt seems to be broken e.g. accented characters aren't shown properly. This is on a box upgraded from 6.2
I'm getting similar problems with the backspace key as well. I'm using a workaround that works for me at the moment and that is to use setxkbmap . This fixes the backspace problem and seems to leave all my other keys working ok as well. My XF86Config settings are. XkbModel "pc101" XkbLayout "gb"
Just a note to everyone who has contributed here.. Although many of you are having perhaps similar problems, they are almost certainly solved in a different manner. In other words, each problem is related to keymaps, however they are not related to the UK keymap that this bug report was filed with. As such, I request that each of you that has added info here of similar problems, please file a new bugzilla report for your problem, perhaps referencing this one if you like. The reason is that once I solve the UK keymap issue, this bug is fixed, and your bugs will get lost when the bug is closed.
Is this problem still present in Red Hat Linux 7.2 with XFree86-4.1.0?
Closing bug assuming it is fixed in the XFree86 4.1.0-15 erratum that is available for RHL 7.1 and 7.2, or in rawhide. If it is still an issue, be sure to try both of these releases and reopen the bug report if necessary. I do not have this keyboard, and nothing obvious stands out at me when looking at the keymap files. If the problem persists, if someone could do some debugging with xev et al. it might help find a solution.