Hi, I have moved a hard disk with SL8.1 from one computer to another and
suddenly find that, on the command line in text mode, when I try to type
the letter l the letter a shows up. It happens only to that letter l. I
use a UK keyboard. Any ideas? In graphics mode everything works fine.

Thanks, JB

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:11:11 +0200, J Boehm wrote:
> Hi, I have moved a hard disk with SL8.1 from one computer to another and
> suddenly find that, on the command line in text mode, when I try to type
> the letter l the letter a shows up. It happens only to that letter l. I

Ahoy me bucko! Arrrrr! Yer ASCII chest done fell plunder to another
buccaneer, methinks. Avast!

> use a UK keyboard. Any ideas? In graphics mode everything works fine.

First thing I'd do, me lad: make that keyboard walk the plank. Ye could
have a bad 'un thar. If that don't set 'er steady, hoist ye Jolly Roger
an' try some testin', o' the likes o' showkey(1).
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:39:41 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:11:11 +0200, J Boehm wrote:
>> Hi, I have moved a hard disk with SL8.1 from one computer to another and
>> suddenly find that, on the command line in text mode, when I try to type
>> the letter l the letter a shows up. It happens only to that letter l. I
>
> Ahoy me bucko! Arrrrr! Yer ASCII chest done fell plunder to another
> buccaneer, methinks. Avast!
>
>> use a UK keyboard. Any ideas? In graphics mode everything works fine.
>
> First thing I'd do, me lad: make that keyboard walk the plank. Ye could
> have a bad 'un thar. If that don't set 'er steady, hoist ye Jolly Roger
> an' try some testin', o' the likes o' showkey(1).

Ever so kind, squire. Keyboard as sound as the cannons to the aft. l=38,
a=30 in either modes. ASCII has come a cropper.
Ta, JB

J Boehm wrote:

> Hi, I have moved a hard disk with SL8.1 from one computer to another and
> suddenly find that, on the command line in text mode, when I try to type
> the letter l the letter a shows up. It happens only to that letter l. I
> use a UK keyboard. Any ideas? In graphics mode everything works fine.

A hive the sime assue. Doesn't mitter is long is you ire i ten-fanger fist
typer.

D
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:36:43 +0200, Kiki Novak wrote:

> J Boehm wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have moved a hard disk with SL8.1 from one computer to another and
>> suddenly find that, on the command line in text mode, when I try to type
>> the letter l the letter a shows up. It happens only to that letter l. I
>> use a UK keyboard. Any ideas? In graphics mode everything works fine.
>
> A hive the sime assue. Doesn't mitter is long is you ire i ten-fanger fist
> typer.
>
> D

a or l ? It is all a matter of perception (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Typing in
the Norwegian Fells, second draft)

Seriously, I am puzzled about this, sounds too strange to be true.
JB