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I'm running Puppy Linux 2.02-Seamonkey live cd.
It seems that no matter what keyboard setup I try to use I can't get a correct function. As an example, with the current setup:
keyboard yields
a q
z w
m ,
; m
I've tried us, br, latin1, etc. to no avail. Can anyone help???
Stupid Question but I will ask anyways, Do you know if it is a working keyboard. The reason I ask is that my sister had a problem with hers and it was producing the same results as yours.
With all due respect to Dell, the fact that it's a brand new keyboard makes its quality MORE suspect, rather than less. Keyboards don't fail much, but when they do, it's usually early in their life, like all electronics. Also, of course, manufacturing errors are the most likely problem, especially with something new. I doubt anyone actually ever tested the keyboard before sending it out. Can you swap in a different keyboard and see if the problem remains?
makes me think of QWERTY vs AZERTY (used in just a few countries) keyboard lay-outs.
On a AZERTY keyboard, the top row of letters reads AZERTYUIOP, whereon a QWERTY, it reads QWERTYUIOP.
Hence, the A is swapped with the Q and the Z with the W. Also the 'M' is placed differently too. The 'M' on a AZERTY is put to the right of the 'L', whereas it's besides the 'N' on QWERTYs.
So, I guess the OP solved his problem by choosing an appropriate keyboard lay-out (typically Belgian/French for AZERTY, UK/US for QWERTY, but there are some local variations for some countries).
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