[SOLVED] Keyboard Input Wrong

[treb29]

My first post:
Best wishes for Xmas and New Year to this forum and all the LL Team hope the new  year brings more Lite-users.
Posting from Thinkpad T43 and with regards to keyboard input wrong, this also happened to me. The solution for me was: You have to "hold the shift key+NumLk/ScrLk" to deactivate number lock screen lock. This should allow the keyboard to input correctly. I had this in LL1.08 and LL2.0 but in LL2.2 no problems.

Xmas all
Mau

[pjpreilly]

This only happened with this distro on said machine. Booted others and no problem. Resorted to installing EOS Luna for a grandpa.

[oxo42]

Thank you Wirezfree , it`s so simple when you know how.

[Wirezfree]

That is normal behaviour...
When you sudo, it asks for your password... just type it, and hit enter, it doesn't show it whilst typing.

Dave

[oxo42]

Hi I am new to linux and this is my first post on this forum, I hope I am in the right place.
I have just installed O.S.1.0.8 as dual boot with WIN XP on an HP 510 Laptop.
My problem is much the same as this post by Pjpreilly,but a bit more complicated I have tried the suggested options with partial success.

My biggest problem is with the Terminal it will not show my password when asked, I can input other "sudo " instructions and there are no problems but when asked for "sudo password "  no characters appear all I get is the green flashing curser.
All this means that I cant get any updates or make any changes.

[Wirezfree]

It sounds like you have Num Lock enabled on your keyboard.

There is probably a FN + Key combination to turn it off.

Then go:
Menu > Settings > Keyboard, uncheck the 'Restore Num Lock State on Startup

Dave

[pjpreilly]

Try it by typing password for wireless network on live boot.

[pjpreilly]

Standard English/English keyboard input configuration on a Thinkpad T43 gives a '5' when an 'i' is typed as well as other bad mappings.