| Subject: | [Freedos-user] Backslash key on UK keyboard not recognised |
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| Date: | Sun, 3 May 2020 09:49:00 +0100 |
| From: | Ian Park <i.d.c.p...@chalmers-park.name> |
| Reply-To: | Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> |
| To: | FreeDOS User Mailing List <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> |
Good morning
Over the past few days I've progressed as far as installing FreeDOS 1.2 on an old PC (HP Deskpro low profile, 1700MHz Pentium, 512MB RAM, 20GB HDD, CD ROM drive). Still early stages, I'm finding my way around before I try to move on to connecting to a network (but that's another story...).
I've hit an oddity; FreeDOS doesn't recognise the backslash (\) key on my USB UK keyboard. The other two PCs to which I connect it through a USB sharing switch (the one which I'm using to compose this email, running Linux Mint, and another running Windows 10) both recognise it. When I get time I'll try the US keyboard driver to see whether that recognises the \ key, but fairly obviously that would be rather less than ideal, since it's a UK keyboard!
Can anyone offer a suggestion to deal with this problem, please?
Thanks in advance
Ian
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Good morning all
Further to the above, I've done some digging around, and found that the problem arose because I was using a USB keyboard plugged into a USB port on the FreeDOS system unit. When I tried an older keyboard (same layout, UK keyboard with the \ and | key between the Z and left shift key) with a PS/2 connector, the \ and | key worked as expected. When I tried my USB keyboard plugged into the PS/2 keyboard via a USB to PS/2 adapter, the \ and | key worked as expected. The moral of this seems to be: if in doubt, use PS/2 keyboard (& mouse) rather than USB...
I hope this will help anyone else who encounters a similar problem...Best regards
Ian
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