I'm afraid this is not cause of my problem. I'm using three keyboard layouts in linux - US, Deutsch and Czech. The US layout is the default and I'm using it unless I'm creating some document. However, to check it, I switched off the layouts in xorg.conf, so only US was available. However, the Shift …

Definitely not. I'm using X.org, but it has been at least three weeks from last atp-get dist-upgrade (during which X were probably upgraded). I'm using dosbox almost each day now, so I discovered the problem immediately. I'm sure there was no other upgrade than sdl upgrade, between working-not …

I was using dosbox from debian distribution. There was probably also some older libsdl version installed, but I'm not sure which one. Two days ago, I was compiling qemu from sources, because of some problems with debian version. For that, I needed development package of libsdl. Only one available …

CVS build with following in the dosbox.conf: [sdl] usescancodes=true works perfectly. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the advice. Any chance to get the CVS build anywhere but from http://cvscompile.aep-emu.de/dosbox.htm ? This page does not seem to work. But maybe, it's just some temporary problem - I will continue trying.

Hi, I was using DOSBox 0.63 on Debian Sarge without problems for some time. However, after upgrading SDL library through apt-get to version 1.2 (package libsdl1.2debian), the Shift key is no longer working in DOSBox. I can write lowercase characters, with CapsLock also uppercase character, but no …