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

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> 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.
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Thanks for the reply.  There is an i18n file in /etc/sysconfig, the
contents are:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Does that look odd (it doesn't to me but you never know)?  Seems like
this has been a Red Hat problem because I vaguely remember having this
problem before on a previous Red Hat installation.  I don't remember it
on SuSE or recall it on Debian.  I may have to do a quick install and
see if i can discern anything.