[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard problems in either X or KDE

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> The asterisk key in the numeric keypad part of the keyboard doesn't work
> (is ignored) using CentOS 5.4.  I've tried searching the web for an
> answer but both "asterisk" and "asterisk key" refer to the open source
> VOIP PBX and I'm getting too many erroneous hits.  If I toggle over to a
> command prompt (Ctrl-Alt-F1) it does work (and it worked under Debian)
> so I know it's not a hardware issue.  I tried changing the XkbModel
> setting from pc105 to pc104 and restarting X but it had no effect.
> 
> I'm hoping someone has encountered this problem and can share the fix
> with me because searching the web is proving to be an exercise in futility.

Maybe a wrong locale?  There's an i18n file in /etc/sysconfig.

Not sure.