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Shift keys work only with letters

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First post, by nr

Posted on 2006-04-25, 00:22

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I'm running dosbox on a Debian Linux system.
I have two USB keyboards (kinesis + logitech cordless) and one
PS/2 keyboard (kinesis).

On all three keyboards, the shift keys work only for letters.
Shift - ; does not produce :
Shift ' does not produce "
and so on. Shift does not work with numbers.

I've fired up the keyboard mapper within dosbox but can't see a workaround. Anybody have any experience with this?
(CPU is AMD Sempron 3300+, ASUS motherboard (K8N))

Reply 1 of 6, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-04-25, 01:52

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Works here using Windows 2003. Now to try with Linux.....sigh...gotta reboot since I don't have Vmware set up.

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Reply 2 of 6, by nr

Posted on 2006-04-25, 03:38

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OK, turns out this is a known problem with the Debian package ---- some nasty interaction with SDL.

I downloaded a build of a recent CVS and am now running System Shock (albeit with no sound). Will try to get sound tomorrow.

Reply 3 of 6, by farslayer

Posted on 2006-04-27, 23:32

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I have the same issue.. glad it's a bug and not just me.

I'm hoping they fix this in Debian soon, since I just bought a dos game I relly want to play since I missed it the first time around in 1997 when it was originally released..

Basically I just posted so if someone replies to this thread saying its fixed I'll get a notification.

Reply 4 of 6, by nr

Posted on 2006-04-28, 00:29

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This has been reported as a bug on the debian package, so you can probably watch that...

Reply 5 of 6, by tjr

Posted on 2006-09-24, 20:39

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Still confirming this bug on an up-to-date Ubuntu 6.02.1 LTS Dapper system on an iBook G4 as of 2006-09-24.

Reply 6 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2006-09-24, 20:56

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Tried usescancodes=false/true in the dosbox config?
If it misbehaves for both, what keyboard layout are you using?

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