Why UK Keyboard Not Working?

[Martin109]

In the UK, on this Compaq Evo N620c running Vector Linux 6.0, I have a Compaq UK keyboard plugged into the keyboard socket, and it's working fine in terms of being QWERTY, but various keys do not correspond, most importantly when I want @ I get ", and vice versa.  Also, ~ gives me | and when I want to use a GBP sign, I get #.  The hash key, on the other hand, gives me \

I thought I could fix this by using VASMCC (like Control Panel on Windoze) to change the keyboard mapping to United Kingdom, but this makes no difference.

What do I do?

[Panoramix]

It probably thinks that it has a US one plugged in.

We use three kind of keyboards at home and I keep on banging my head on the table as OSes seem to assume that people don't switch keyboards. I would try the vector linux forum, on Debian/Ubuntu it involves editing a text file (can't remember the name though).

[David Martin]

Might be the locale setting. At least it doesn't think you have a french or belgian keyboard.. That way lies madness, though a Turkish one was pretty bad. Having to remember the country mappings for a VT102 was also interesting - switching keyboard modes to get the characters you needed..

[philip]

What does this command show?
setxkbmap -print

[pcolbeck]

It's a local problem but local is set at two different layers, one for console and the other for X. Not familiar with Vector so I would ask on their forums about where exactly it is set.

[Martin109]

Partial workaround found by using

setxkbmap -uk

and now need to find, from VL boards, where to put that command so that it is executed at boot time, or find another way of resolving.

With Ctl-Alt-Del issues and my Linux machines, I ofter ask simultaneously on VL board and here, and usually get a much quicker answer here.  I think VL is mainly Canadian, so by the time they've woken up and scratched their heads , you've got there! 

Thanks for all the help.