Comma key is unusable on my machine

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Author: Stephen P. Smith
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Subject: Comma key is unusable on my machine
Kevin:

I just checked. The working system and the system with the problem have
the same options:
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "basic"
#Option "XkbOptions" ""

On the advice from Dennis Irwin (a co-worker) I checked the differences
in the xmodmap. Why should these differences
occur?

--- workingsystem.txt    Tue Aug 13 19:05:00 2002
+++ problemsystem.txt    Tue Aug 13 19:06:00 2002
@@ -74,7 +65,7 @@
      56        0x0062 (b)    0x0042 (B)    
      57        0x006e (n)    0x004e (N)    
      58        0x006d (m)    0x004d (M)    
-     59        0x002c (comma)    0x003c (less)    
+     59        0xff08 (BackSpace)    
      60        0x002e (period)    0x003e (greater)    
      61        0x002f (slash)    0x003f (question)    
      62        0xffe2 (Shift_R)    
@@ -140,7 +131,7 @@
     122        
     123        
     124        
-    125        
+    125        0xffff (Delete)    
     126        
     127        
     128        
@@ -271,5 +262,3 @@
     253        
     254        
     255        
-
-





Kevin Buettner wrote:

>On Aug 13, 3:35pm, Stephen Smith wrote:
>
>>I have been using RH 7.2 for some time now and have just moved to 7.3 on
>>several machines. On my machine at home, and only there, when I juse
>>the "," key (either shifted or not) the effect is a backspace.
>>
>>If X is not running, the comma key works as advertised. Does anyone
>>have a clue as to what might be remapping the key or where I should look?
>>
>
>Take a look at the various Xkb settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>
>Kevin
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