<html><head></head><body style="zoom: 0%;"><div dir="auto">This is awesome stuff. Thanks! That Arch Linux link is great. Gives me some decent reading, and may lead to an answer. I suspect that the mapping is pointing to the wrong file.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Picked up a thumb drive, so have a couple of things to try, and new stuff to read.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">I'll make a USB boot drive and at least check that out first.<br><br></div>
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+1 on the hardware if the keys don't work with the USB keyboard removed.
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FWIW, the old Gateway anykey keyboards could remap keys internally. They stayed mapped even if you plugged it into another system. I had to learn how to reset them to default.
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After that, Arch linux has a great wiki that applies to many linuxen
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration<br></a>
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration">a</a>nd look for layout,
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I use Fedora with xfce and use both keyboards. I have my laptop vertical to use its screen w/ my desktop setup.
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If your normal key sequence to get into the BIOS boot menu doesn't even work, that sounds pretty conclusively like a hardware issue to me. Is it difficult to swap out the keyboard, in this laptop?
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Just need to go to a store to pick one up. Yes, I remember using Knoppix CD'S for checking and sometimes repairing Windows problems, never had to do that for Linux.
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Once I get a thumb drive, I can try a couple of things, including making a live disk or two.
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Laptop is only a few years old, so it's not quite a fossil yet. Getting there though.
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For sufficiently old fossils, it might be easier to boot from a live CD, if thumb drives aren't laying around already.
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Distinguishing between a failed keyboard and a software misconfiguration can be helped by seeing the keyboard is not failed under different software. Knoppix distributions (at least in the past) had a reputation for being very good at autoconfiguring a wide variety of hardware. But if System 76 laptops are sufficiently specialized, it's possible no other OS will be happy with them.
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Should I assume you're already aware of this page? -
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