Found it, a bad .xinitrc file that I had accidentally copied from an
earlier backup disk.
sps
Stephen P. Smith wrote:
> 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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