Linux weirdness

[futuristicmonkey]

Ya. So, anyways, for some reason in Linux, whenever I try to type a backslash, or a question mark, or any kind of punctuatiuon on the keyboard ( period key, slash, apostrophe, for examples) it either gives me a é (if shift isnt pressed) or a È (if shift is pressed). What could be wrongÉ (damnit). Any help is appreciated.

 

[silverpig]

change your keyboard layout?

are you running xfree hardware acceleration? do the xf86config and select a different (more generic) keyboard.

 

[erichbf]

Need more info:

What distro are you using, What does your keyboard section of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like? My snippet is posted below:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

First thing I would do is test another keyboard, or test your keyboard on another computer. Do you have another operating system installed, and does the keyboard work with that OS? Did the keyboard work before, and now it isn't working?

Note: If you are using an older distribution, the file may be named something like "XF86.config" instead of "xorg.conf", but it does the same thing

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Well, I typed my original post in Mandrake version 10.0 and now I'm typing in Windows XP. I'm dual booting. I'll try that /etc/X11/xorg.canf tomorrow morning (it's 12:11 a.m. - lol, it is the morning 🙂 ) But my keyboard did work correctly before and just one day, this happened. Thanks for the help, I'll reply with the /etc thingy in about 9-11 hours lol