missing "@" on a logitech desktop optical keyboard
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missing "@" on a logitech desktop optical keyboard
I've just installed Mandrake9.2 on my pc (yesterday, during the linux day in Italy) and I discovered that my keyboard doesn't type the character @ when I press "ctrl" and "alt" together.
More to the point, it doesn't type any character using the "ctrl + alt" combnination (or any other similar one), while the other characters are displayed correctly. There's no way to display on the screen @, #, [, ], €.
The keyboard and the mouse are both logitech desktop optical de luxe, the're on two PS/2 connections and they work properly on WinME.
Do you have any idea about?
Thanks a lot,
Re: missing "@" on a logitech desktop optical keyboard
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Originally posted by Il Passatore I've just installed Mandrake9.2 on my pc (yesterday, during the linux day in Italy) and I discovered that my keyboard doesn't type the character @ when I press "ctrl" and "alt" together.
More to the point, it doesn't type any character using the "ctrl + alt" combnination (or any other similar one), while the other characters are displayed correctly. There's no way to display on the screen @, #, [, ], €.
The keyboard and the mouse are both logitech desktop optical de luxe, the're on two PS/2 connections and they work properly on WinME.
Do you have any idea about?
Thanks a lot,
Thanks Joseph, I tried as you suggested but without any result.
All I have from my pc is a loud "Beeep" when I presso the ctrl + alt and @.
When I press shift and 2, as you suggested, the @ does not appear.
I'm pretty sure there's a kind of solution, because a guy at the Linux day fixed it for a while (however when I came home the keyboard didn't work well).
I'll go on in any case, even because I don't know that man.
Have you checked that both your desktop and the OS both have the correct country/keyboard installed? I did that once, did a UK install but found the keyboard was still set to US.
Dear XavierP,
Yes I did (or at least I do think so). There's window in Mandrake where you're asked to specify your keyboard language. I chose "Italian" amongst hundreds of languages.
Honestly, I do not know whether there's another condition to be men in order to specify the kind of the keyyboard you're using.
I mean, in WinME you have to choiese amongst 2 - 3 different kinds of keyboard, the american, of the italian, or the spainard standard, and so on ... In mandrake seems to me that the choice is too wide, perhars there's another place in the OS where you have to st the keyboard, and not the place I jumped into.
I'll go on searching, and thank you in any case for you attention and kind suggestion.
If you use KDE or Gnome, there is (I think) a place where you have to specify the keyboard for the desktop environment - this is in addition to specifying it for Mandrake.
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