Raspberry keyboard

Hi. I got a raspberry pi bundle everything is fine but the keys are mixed up @ gets " , \=#, #=£ etc. any help would appreciated .Thanks in advance , Don

johnbeetem over 11 years ago

RasPi by default assumes a Great Britain "gb" keyboard layout. To change it to another layout -- e.g., "us" -- follow the instructions at the RasPi Troubleshooting Wiki or this element14 discussion.
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Former Member over 11 years ago

hi don,
I found that since the r-pi originated from the UK,, the keyboard mapping is different. You have to go into and remap it for the U.S.A.
Chuck Smith
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nlarson over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Guys - hope you don't mind, but I'm going to move this convo over to the PI Accessories group - think quite a lot of people might be interested in this one over there Thanks for posting!
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

Hi John
I'm new
When I went to re-map "dpkg"or "nano" in Debian Wheezy not reconized
Thanks
Don
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Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi Chuck
I'm new
When Iwent to re-map "dpkg" or "nano" not reconized in Debian Wheezy
Thanks
Don
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johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

DON LEPAGE wrote:

Hi John
I'm new
When I went to re-map "dpkg"or "nano" in Debian Wheezy not reconized
Thanks
Don
You need to enter the commands exactly -- Unix is very picky. The RasPi Troubleshooting Wiki's first suggested command is:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

"dpkg-reconfigure" and "keyboard-configuration" do not contain any spaces. The "sudo" command is required to execute "dpkg-reconfigure" as super-user so that it can modify a system file. The command given is for Debian Squeeze, but I assume it also works for Wheezy.

If you'd rather just edit the configuration file "/etc/default/keyboard", you can do that using the detailed instruction at this discussion. It's always a good idea to make a backup copy of the original file before you modify it.

Can you show us exactly what you're typing into RasPi and how it's responding? That would help track the problem down.

shabaz has a nice list of GNU/Linux commands for new users in a comment in this discussion.
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