[Angstrom-distro-users] C3100 (spitz) Fn key not working

[Graeme Gregory]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:15:33AM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote:
> YU-PHING ONG wrote:
> 
> > However, I find that the keyboard is behaving very strangely when I run
> > terminal (and others, e.g. minimo).  The Fn key simply is not working 
> 
> > Has anybody encountered this?  /etc/keymap-2.6 is still the default, and I
> > checked that AltGR has keycode=61.
> 
> This is a known problem, at least with minimo.  I also get it using 
> titchy instead of angstrom, in firefox and thunderbird both -- but not 
> in an xterm.  But this should not affect the / key, since that is 
> shifted, not Fn+, on your 3100.  If you don't have a / key, do you get a 
> < instead?  I saw this using an angstrom kernel plus armel-debian, as 
> suggested on the oe forum (by locutus** (forgot the digits)).  With a 
> default keyboard map that is what you get, and it is very hard to do 
> much without a / or a :, or =.
> 
> Somehow firefox (etc) changes the keyboard mapping.  I have no clue how.
> 
> One workaround is to use an on-screen keyboard window instead of the 
> physical keyboard.
> 
This is nothing to do with firefox or minimo, the latest set of images
are just broken.

A quick fix is move /etc/rcS.d/S00keymap to /etc/rcS.d/S04keymap

New images coming soon.

Graeme (XorA)