Found it, a bad .xinitrc file that I had accidentally copied from an 
earlier backup disk.

sps


Stephen P. Smith wrote:

> Kevin:
>
> I just checked.  The working system and the system with the problem 
> have the same options:
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbVariant" "basic"
> #Option "XkbOptions" ""
>
> On the advice from Dennis Irwin (a co-worker) I checked the 
> differences in the xmodmap.  Why should these differences
> occur?
>
> --- workingsystem.txt    Tue Aug 13 19:05:00 2002
> +++ problemsystem.txt    Tue Aug 13 19:06:00 2002
> @@ -74,7 +65,7 @@
>      56        0x0062 (b)    0x0042 (B)   
>      57        0x006e (n)    0x004e (N)   
>      58        0x006d (m)    0x004d (M)   
> -     59        0x002c (comma)    0x003c (less)   
> +     59        0xff08 (BackSpace)   
>      60        0x002e (period)    0x003e (greater)   
>      61        0x002f (slash)    0x003f (question)   
>      62        0xffe2 (Shift_R)   
> @@ -140,7 +131,7 @@
>     122       
>     123       
>     124       
> -    125       
> +    125        0xffff (Delete)   
>     126       
>     127       
>     128       
> @@ -271,5 +262,3 @@
>     253       
>     254       
>     255       
> -
> -
>
>
>
>
> Kevin Buettner wrote:
>
>> On Aug 13,  3:35pm, Stephen Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using RH 7.2 for some time now and have just moved to 
>>> 7.3 on several machines.  On my machine at home, and only there,  
>>> when I juse the "," key  (either shifted or not) the effect is a 
>>> backspace. 
>>> If X is not running, the comma key works as advertised.  Does anyone 
>>> have a clue as to what might be remapping the key or where I should 
>>> look?
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at the various Xkb settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
>>
>> Kevin
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