Keyboard Problem in Fedora Core 4

[Manish Kathuria]

David Desscan wrote:
> I had another question on keyboard and Fedora Core 4 but it was never 
> posted.  So first of all you are lucky your question has been forwarded 
> to this list.  Apparently mine has not been retained and I don't know 
> the reason.  So I hope it won't be a problem if I ask it again here.
>  
>   I have a compaq nx9010 notebook and my problem is that certain keys 
> doesn't work for e.g. the ¦ key.  Since I purchased this notebook in 
> Switzerland it has a Swiss keyboard and obviously I installed the 
> correct keyboard map ;-).  Well the first thing I did is to set the 
> keyboard map to default which is the standard US 105 keys with 
> */loadkeys -v -d/* .  I set it back to CH using */loadkeys -v fr_CH/* .  
> I checked the keyboard settings in the */xorg.conf/* file.  I have read 
> that the scancodes can be interpreted differently depending on the  API 
> used i.e. console terminal or X(I mean opening terminal from a GUI).I 
> have only FC4 console installed and have not been able to test it inside 
> a GUI. 
> 
>  
> 
> On 8/29/06, *Manish Kathuria* <manish at tuxspace.com 
> <mailto:manish at tuxspace.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have installed FC4 on a Pentium 200 MX system having an AT keyboard.
> 
>  
> Please specify; qwertz, qwerty, or any other.
> 
>     The keyboard is working perfectly on other systems.  However it does not
>     work on this system when FC4 is running. 
> 
>  
> What do you mean by not working?  Do you mean keyboard detected but 
> certain keys not responding or scancodes interpreted differently?
> 
>     However it works well while
>     booting up and when FC4 is run in single user mode. Any suggestions ?
> 
>  
> check xorg.conf file and verify that the correct keyboard map is loaded.

Its a US International QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is detected when 
the system boots up and also works perfectly in single user mode (run 
level 1). However in run level 3 none of the keys respond. I had not 
checked xorg.conf because X is not running at all.