Ubuntu :: Botloader W/o Enter Key Or Remap Keyboard In Bios?
Oct 16, 2010
So, for some reason the right side ENTER, period, semi colon, SHIFT, and UP, Down, Left arrow keys have all stopped working on my laptop. I just set up a dual boot with windows xp, and ubuntu.
I checked under the keys, and cleaned them, and no problem. This wouldn't be that bad of a sutuation, I could just re-map the keys. However, when my computer starts, and I enter Bios > Bootloader, I get stuck.
I can use home/end to move up and down, but no way to select which OS I want. I have to plug in a USB keyboard to get into my OS. I don't want to be carrying around a keyboard, otherwise I wouldn't have a laptop.
So, I either need a different bootloader which can use some other keys, or I need a way to remap the enter key all the way back at the bios, so I can trick it and enter my OS,
Edit: Actually, I'll probably need a new keyboard. Ubuntu is pretty good with battery life, so I could boot into ubuntu, then hibernate. So, I need a good key mapper for Ubuntu
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Mar 13, 2011
I have been running ubuntu on my macbook for a while, and have been using a USB keyboard as the R F and V keys on my laptop are broken. In windows i had:
F5 > R
F6 > F
F7 > v
I would like to be able to keep the configuration - how would i go about doing this? BTW, graphical interface would be nice.
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Aug 9, 2010
My ASUS Eee PC 701's keyboard has some broken keys: 1,3,5,7,8,0,=,bkspc and tab do not function at all.Whilst I can just about make do as is, it would be nice to be able to press Ctrl+AltGr+'Q-P' for numbers or something.
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Mar 1, 2010
I spilled a beverage on my wireless keyboard & everything works except the space-bar. I hate to replace a keyboard cause of that, so is there any way to remap the space-bar to another key? I've looked at all of the options & can't find anything. I'm using 32 bit Karmic & a logitech wireless keyboard.
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Feb 5, 2010
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Feb 12, 2011
I have an Apple Aluminium keyboard. To the left of 1 key I have the less/greater (< >) key, not grave/tilde (` ~). xmodmap does not work for me: layout switching (done with setxkbmap) resets my xmodmap changes. .Xmodmap file does not help either. How do I remap the tilde key?
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Mar 13, 2010
I am trying to install a GNU/Linux distro (ubuntu) on a netbook. I have my pendrive ready to do that, but I can't enter into the BIOS to say the machine to start from USB device.I tried F1, Del, F12,... but I only see the M$ Windows7 start boot menu.
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Apr 1, 2011
I have decided to load the OS on a old HP Compaq DX2000 MT to see if its for me before putting it on my main machine.
I loaded Ubuntu version 10.10 last night everything was fine except I could not get my wireless adapter to work, I decided to connect via ethernet to get the latest updates and drivers.
After the updates and restart I now get the non executable memory error. when I enter
/usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose
I am told I have NX capabilities and should go to the bios and enable it. There is nothing in
the bios to enable as far as I can see. So I enter the command
sudo rm /etc/update-motd.d/20-cpu-checker
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Jun 24, 2010
I'm using the Readhat Linux Enterprise 5, and I encountered a problem about captured keyboard need your help. I log in after entering the required username and password using keyboard, but then the keyboard is captured, i.e., I can not enter anything using keyboard. Meanwhile the mouse works well all the time. I encountered this problem when I pressed some keys wrongly two days ago, but unfortunatelly I can not find out these exact keys I pressed.
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Apr 15, 2010
I have a Dell Studio XPS desktop 435MT, with Ubuntu 9.1 64 bit version. There is no ps/2 port in this computer. It worked perfectly fine until yesterday I switched it on and my keyboard lights switch on, but no key pressed works from the very beginning Dell BIOS screen! I have tried to use LiveCD but keyboard doesn't work even there, so it automatically selects english and loads from cd... once it installs the livecd version and loads it, the keyboard starts working again (good thing as I recovered my data). I have also tried inserting norton ghost or other dell setup cds but don't work because a key needs to be pressed and so goes on loading grub (which doesn't work). I will try to fresh install from the terminal screen of the livecd ubuntu.
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May 22, 2010
How do you enter your password terminal the keyboard doesn't work when I try
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Oct 12, 2010
I have tried several versions on my netbook and all fail to boot unless i hold down the enter (return) key on the keyboard then it will load slowly i have also tried meego which does the same thing but i want to use UNR 10:10 without having to sit holding the keyboard for 2 minutes.
Toshiba NB200
Windows 7 Installed too
UNR 10:10 (have tried 9:10, 10:04 and 10:10)
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Apr 19, 2011
this may not be the right place to ask this, but my sister has a macbook and the keyboard does not want to work. i have looked online and i see that the main cause of this problem is in Leopard (correct me if im wrong). So i was wondering if perhaps using linux would solve this problem or if the problem is more hardware related than os related.
Also, how would i go about booting into a linux cd? since u need to enter some keyboard keys at startup and assuming that won't work, is there another way?
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May 12, 2010
I am using a Dell dimension 4550 with pentium 4 processor. My current BOIS is A01. I am running Slackware 13. My current problem is that whenever I reboot, the keyboard fails just before the kernel selection page. This isn't a huge problem because I only have one kernel to boot but it is quite annoying. Whenever I shutdown the computer and boot it up again the keyboard works fine. The problem only occurs when I reboot.How do I fix this? Would updating the BIOS solve the problem?
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Apr 4, 2009
I'm not sure if the forum hardware is the appropriate one... Excuse me if it isn't. I've a laptop fujitsu with a broken keyboard. I need to modify some BIOS parameters, but without ps2 port, I can't access in it. The a usb keyboard is not recognized.
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Feb 19, 2010
When i boot my spare machine i am not able to access the bios or use the arrow keys in the Grub2 menu with a usb keyboard.However,once Debian boots i am able to use the usb keyboard and mouse normally.The strange thing is if i attach a Ps/2 keyboard i can access the bios and Grub2 without problems.With the Ps/2 keyboard attached i entered the bios and checked the settings regarding usb and the following options are enabled:
Usb contoller [enabled]
Usb 2.0 support [enabled
Usb Legacy support [auto]
[code]...
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Sep 15, 2014
I have Debian Jessie 8.0 amd-64 installed. It is a dual boot system with Widnows 8.1 alongside. Both the systems work fine with a few glitches coming at times on jessie. But I assume it should get stabilised with time.
Problem is:
The usb keyboard is no longer detected until the GRUB stage crosses.
* This implies I am unable to press F2 to enter into BIOS
* I am unable to chose Windows 8.1 by using arrow key on the keyboard.
When the default system (first in the grub list), in this case Debian is selected after time runs out then the keyboard comes back to life and works properly thereafter.
So far I have tried the possible solution given at [URL] .... but it did not work.
Some Information
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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie)
Release:testing
Codename:jessie
$ uname -r
3.13-1-amd64
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Jun 3, 2010
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Feb 24, 2011
I just write a script that check some thing. and I use
Code:
read -p " enter : " chk
it executed. but if a user use "Enter key" on keyboard it cant continue and finish.
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Jan 12, 2011
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Jun 11, 2010
Succeeded in connecting to internet using my wll phone. I can now connect using 'wvdial' command in root terminal. But I want to connect through terminal. I tried 'sudo wvdial' command. Then I am asked for my password. But I cannot type my password there. When I type, nothing appears on the terminal window. Ofcourse there's no problem with my keyboard.
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Feb 26, 2010
Just installed the Ubuntu for the first time and I have a problem. My keyboard's "a" key is faulty, it's acting like it's stuck, that is it is constantly typing aaaas so I had to disable it and reassign the letter "a" to another key. I did this quite easily in Windows with a program called KeyTweak...
Now that I started working in Ubuntu, the damn thing started acting just as it did under windows and it's constantly typing a all over the place, so I can't get any work done. How do I disable the key "a" and reassign "a" to another key(like q for instance)? Are there any programs for key remapping in Ubuntu or I'll have to do it manually? If so, how?
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Apr 20, 2011
After having a few issues with pidgin I've decided to play with pidgin. Its great, but I'm looking for a way to remap the commands to use the Windows key instead of the Alt key. I've found lots of references that show how to remap using the .gntrc file, but none that mention the windows key. This says I can rebind: [URL] And the examples on all the pages I could google are setup to use Alt (a) or Ctrl (c), but not the windows key. Examples I've found follow this format. Simple enough, but what to use for the Win key?
[GntWM::binding]
c-a-n = window-next
I wanted to use Ctrl-Alt-n ,but I would like to use Win-n
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Jun 2, 2011
I was wondering if there was any native software like Autohotkey, GlovePIE, etc for Ubuntu that allows you to remap keys / make macros?
Windows has a ton of stuff like this. My first few searches though for Ubuntu software like that has turned up nothing.
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Jan 26, 2010
wondering if any other ppc users have had the issue whereby, after the first unsuccessful power down (or sometimes the second or third) of a fresh ubuntu 9.10 install, mouse button 3, which is normally mapped to F12, becomes function (fn) + F12.? This is really annoying as you now have to use two hands to activate the little drop down menu. So i tried remapping mouse button three to that strange little key beside the left arrow on an ibook keyboard that looks like a picnic table and which, under os x, renames stuff.
I ran "gksu gedit /etc/sysctl.d/10-arch-specific.conf" and edited it accordingly: mouse button 3 from keycode 88 to 104. It works, but i still have to press function to activate it and fn + F12 still works simultaneously (though it is no longer defined in the conf file), and my new key doesnt offer the same functionality (eg, it doesnt give spell check options in firefox where fn + F12 does). Arg. Anybody know how to make it so that i can activate mouse button three without having to press function?
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Nov 17, 2010
I've been playing a fair amount of Minecraft. Awesome game, but I really dislike that the mouse buttons bindings aren't editable. I was wondering if there was a program out there for Linux that can remap a mouse button (Like [Right Click]) to a key on your keyboard. (Like the [Spacebar]) I've done some digging around, but nothing shows up to edit the three standard mouse buttons, just the extended ones.
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Nov 20, 2010
How can I remap arrow keys to windows key + ijkl? I can do this easily in Autohotkey on windows, but I'm struggling on Ubuntu.
I'd really like the solution to work independently of whether I'm using a window manager or not, and to involve modifying as few files as possible; I work on a lots of different machines and am always building new ones, so would like to minimise reconfig effort.
I've tried to understand .Xmodmap, but couldn't make it work (was hard to find detailed docs on modifier keys). Am also considering win+hjkl!
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Jun 9, 2010
I need to remap an MS laser mouse 6000 not the wireless one. The issue is this. The right click button is broken and id like to change the forward button to do right click.
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Oct 20, 2009
I've got a F10 machine set up as a media center (with mythtv...mythdora to be precise) and I love that it's based on fedora since I'm most familiar with it..I would like to map the power button press to a command "pkill X" since sometimes the frontend freezes and running this command kills X (I'm running ratpoison for the speed and simplicity...it just gets the job done and doesn't get in the way).Any help in mapping a single button press to "pkill X" would be greatly appreciated. I also need some help adding this command to the sudo list so the regular "mythtv" user will be able to run it...no password can be entered since the machine has no keyboard. Currently I log in via ssh to get this done but it would be nice to not have to boot up a laptop just to do this.
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