[lug] Keyboard Map Problem?

[Nate Duehr]

Sorry, console.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:47:26AM -0700, Carl.Wagner at Level3.com wrote:
> Are you running under X or console?  Is it possible he remapped his 'd' key to
> something else?  I believe there are utilities to remap to davork (sp?)
> keyboard layout,
> and probably individual keys.  (I swap my control and caps lock under Solaris 
> but it doesn't work consistently).
> 
> Carl.
> 
> 
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > 
> > Nate Duehr wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, I was stumped today by a co-worker who'd done something
> > > "interesting" to his laptop.
> > >
> > > He's running a Toshiba Tecra 8100 as a dual-boot Win2K Pro and RH 7.0
> > > (fresh install) machine.
> > >
> > > Somewhere along the way today, his "d" key stopped working.
> > >
> > > Here's the part I don't understand and it's making me nuts...
> > >
> > > At the login prompt with just the getty and the login program doing the
> > > keyboard chores, it works.
> > >
> > > As soon as you hit Bash (or any other shell, we tried changing his
> > > default login shell), and get your prompt.  "d" stops working.
> > >
> > > Certain programs like vi would cause it to start working again.  I
> > > have a number of assumptions why, but my assumptions don't seem to
> > > explain the behaviour, so I obviously must have a HUGE knowledge gap in
> > > my understanding of how Unix systems get user input.
> > 
> > I don't have any idea what is causing it, but there is something useful
> > to test. The control-v before any character causes the next one to be
> > literal inside of most shells, and vi as well. So if you were to hit a
> > control-v, then d, the next character (regardless of what it is), should
> > show up. For example, control-g is normally bell on consoles, control-v
> > then control-g shows up as:
> > ^g
> > Escape preceded by control-v shows as:
> > ^[
> > 
> > So it will offer a clue as to what it thinks it is if anything is being
> > generated. If no keypress was detected, then the next press after that
> > will show up, possibly modified by the control-v.
> > 
> > > ^
> > > Two things:
> > >
> > > 1. What the heck was going on here?  Any theories?
> > > 2. Can someone guru-ish enough to know briefly summarize the usual
> > > things that happen to things like the keyboard setup on a typical Linux
> > > system... how do my pokes and pecks end up doing useful things and how
> > > can I mess with it.  (not that I want to, but now I'm just downright
> > > curious about this "stuff" that 99.9% of the time "just worked" so I
> > > never learned about it very in-depth.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
> > >
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