[Discuss] LINUX problem -- wrong keyboard layout on boot screen

[Craig Miller]

Hey Murray,

Having your keys remapped on your is always a surprise (like Pi's when they
initially boot up with a UK keyboard).

This may not be your _final_ solution, but Key Mapper might help you once
you get logged in.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/12/remap-keyboard-and-mouse-buttons-on.html

There's a deb package on the github site.
https://github.com/sezanzeb/key-mapper/releases

Craig...
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On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 2:29 PM Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I had not used my old Acer Aspire One for a long time, but decided to plug
> it in and update the systems. I found that I could not log in. I thought I
> had forgotten my password, so I booted into recovery mode, went got a root
> terminal and "changed" my password by using passwd. However, this password
> did not work. I tried all kinds of things I found by Google searches but
> none worked.
>
> I do have a work around:
> At the login prompt, instead of trying to login to my account at first, I
> selected "other". I typed my password into the place where you would
> normally put another user name. For the keys that were incorrect, I fooled
> around with lots of options until I found a combination that would enter
> the correct letter (e.g. I found that to get the letter "M" I set Caps
> Lock, then held down the <FUNCTION> key while pressing the letter "M".
> Once I had the correct password in that location, I copied it, then
> selected my account to login and pasted the password from above. This
> worked. Once I am logged in, the keyboard layout is correct and works fine.
>
> Why is the keyboard layout wrong on Boot? And how can I fix it? I can live
> with it the way it is, but it is annoying and I am very curious to know why
> this happened.
>
> Another problem after my updates: WiFi no longer works. My wireless
> adapter is:
> Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
>
> I am not too surprised by this. I took a chance and updated to LUbuntu
> 21.04 (and it is not even the Beta version yet) so I can expect bugs. Since
> I am not travelling I am not using this computer. It is the ideal size for
> air travel, but a bit slow (especially Windows 10) for daily use). I would
> not be using WiFi an an airline anyway, and maybe they will fix it. Other
> than that, I have had no problems with it so far.
>
> Murray
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