<div dir="ltr">Fossil here, too. I sympathize.<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what exact problem you are experiencing, but one way to start to get a handle on it is to create a USB thumb drive with a "live" version of one or more other Linux distributions and try booting to it to see whether they get a reasonable keyboard configuration out-of-the-box.</div><div><br></div><div>I have an old netbook where I mangled the keyboard connector, so it has to have an external keyboard to do anything.</div><div><br></div><div>And there's also this possibility: <a href="https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator">https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator</a></div><div><br></div><div> -- jmcg</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 1:21 PM Bruce Labitt <<a href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net">bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Feeling like a bit of a fossil and not knowing what files do what, or <br>
where things are located. Need to fix an obnoxious problem with a <br>
keyboard and realize I just don't know even how to investigate this <br>
anymore. What are recommended sources for a modern overview of system <br>
files, purposes and organization?<br>
<br>
Think my laptop now believes my Logitech keyboard is the default <br>
keyboard. This is bad, because it has a different number of keys and <br>
the mapping is different. This a royal pia. I am typing with a mouse. <br>
Even the space bar doesn't work. Practically it makes a laptop into a <br>
desktop system. I don't even know where to start since a lot of the <br>
Linux cheese moved, in the past 10 years.<br>
<br>
System76 Oryx 6 Pro laptop. POPOS 22.04.<br>
<br>
Any tips or pointers to well written overviews on the modern <br>
organization would be appreciated. Perhaps I could learn enough to at <br>
least know the correct search terms.<br>
<br>
TIA, Bruce<br>
<br>
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