acer extensa 5220 keyboard issue

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acer extensa 5220 keyboard issue

Post#1 by cliktrip » 05 Nov 2014, 13:28

Hello,

total newbie on linux and porteus...

Need teh kiosk to work in a hotel as a web surfing machine...

installed it, all well, put the german keyboard scheme (also tried english first).

The keyboard needs the function key to be pressed to get the g (otherwise just 6) etc...

The keys are completely mixed...

Any help really appreciated. Porteus is the kiosk software I was looking for, but with this issue it is not usable.

THX

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Re: acer extensa 5220 keyboard issue

Post#2 by fanthom » 05 Nov 2014, 15:17

hi cliktrip,

must be a matter of setting correct variant for this layout. any idea which one it can be?
here is the list of variants supported by linux for the german keyboard:

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deadacute                    German (dead acute)
deadgraveacute               German (dead grave acute)
nodeadkeys                   German (eliminate dead keys)
T3                           German (T3)
ro                           Romanian (Germany)
ro_nodeadkeys                Romanian (Germany, eliminate dead keys)
dvorak                       German (Dvorak)
sundeadkeys                  German (Sun dead keys)
neo                          German (Neo 2)
mac                          German (Macintosh)
mac_nodeadkeys               German (Macintosh, eliminate dead keys)
dsb                          Lower Sorbian                                                   │)
dsb_qwertz                   Lower Sorbian (qwertz)
qwerty                       German (qwerty)
ru                           Russian (Germany, phonetic)
legacy                       German (legacy)
please send an answer to support@porteus-kiosk.org (link this thread for reference) and i'll deliver an ISO image for testing.

thanks
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Re: acer extensa 5220 keyboard issue

Post#3 by cliktrip » 05 Nov 2014, 16:24

I have no idea...it seems the layout takes over the function keys in blue...

at this stage unusable...

anyway

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