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Weirdest keyboard mapping

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First post, by gasodero

Posted on 2009-06-23, 00:55

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I just got dosbox running on a debian machine only to find that the keyboard mapping is absolutely crazy. For instance, to run "keyb us" I had to type "x^[ctrl][alt][F7]añ".
Can anybody give me some ideas as to what could I be doing wrong?

Thanks.

Reply 1 of 2, by Kippesoep

Posted on 2009-06-23, 02:04

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Great job figuring that out 😀 If you look at the dosbox.conf file (~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf when using DOSBox 0.73), look for the section [sdl] and find the setting usescancodes. Try changing this from true to false or vice versa.

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Reply 2 of 2, by gasodero

Posted on 2009-06-25, 15:40

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I did take quite some time to try every key. But now it's over. Setting usescancodes to false soved the problem. Don't really know how, because I have no idea what symkeys are, but I don't need to know. Thank you!

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