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I am running a Debian Testing machine here and I have trouble with my keyboard settings in X.
All of the number keys and special keys work, but not the letters of the alphabet.
Of course u will need to see my X config file, but I am not even sure how to find if I am running X.org or XFree86 and which file is being used as config file.
Don't worry, I think they all say that. Xorg is a fork of XFree afaik and it seems to be gradually replacing XFree. The configuration files are very similar.
Don't worry, I think they all say that. Xorg is a fork of XFree afaik and it seems to be gradually replacing XFree. The configuration files are very similar.
ok so what could possibly be wrong with my xorg.conf file?
(keyboard model set to pc102 and keys to de_CH for swiss keyboard)
ok so what could possibly be wrong with my xorg.conf file?
I don't know. You should be able to fix it by running xorgconfig as root. This will generate a new xorg.conf, so back up your original xorg.conf file first just in case something else stops working (then you'll have the original config to compare the new one to).
Alternatively you could hack away at the keyboard section of your present xorg.conf or post the keyboard section of the file. Maybe someone will spot an anomaly.
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