I don't have another distro. Of course I could get one and try, and I'm sure some (esp. more popular distros like Ubuntu) work fine (since obviously a lot of linux people use dosbox), but I need it working for *this* distro. :-) It could well be distro-specific issue like some wierd keyboard config …

Thanks, but that doesn't quite solve my problem. As I said, everything outside Dosbox types fine.

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Where would I find the mapper.txt? (I just used apt-get to install dosbox, all defaults)

When I typed "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", I got the following input: http://img23.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_95213_dosbox_122_705lo.jpg (when I pressed "j" it resulted in a newline), and certain other letters didn't do anything when pressed. usescancodes=false didn't help …

I am running Debian. In the linux shell itself, my keyboard works fine. But when I run dosbox, in the dosbox shell my keys are mapped totally wrong. Pressing "j" results in a newline like an enter key would do, "a" becomes "u", "s" becomes "i", "d" becomes "o", etc. It seems there is some kind of …