Keyboard Problems - Sam440ep-flex

I got my Sam440ep-flex on Friday and got everything set up and running and everything works great except:

The pipe and backslash key ( \ | ) won't work.

I've tried three keboards (two Apple brand and one Dynex) and all the OTHER keys work. But not the backslash/pipe.

It doesn't matter what keymap I select in OS 4.1, I just can't type a pipe.

Any ideas?


(This may well be an OS4 software issue rather than a hardware one, but I'm really not sure!)

@jbni

You're right! I've got a Dynex keyboard also and the |-/ key doesn't work on the Sam. Hmm, wonder why I haven't noticed that before.

@Valiant

I just tried interrupting the boot sequence and going into the UBoot shell, and the \| key DOES work in uboot.

I have no idea why it doesn't work when AOS 4.1 loads.

It's like the keymap is improperly defined but I can't figure out how to fix it.

The key is listed in the keymap, but it's listed as a key to the right f the ' key. The keymaps don't appear to actually map the key scancode to the key in use.

Anyone know of a working keymap editor for OS4.1?

@jbni

Open sys:prefs/input

Then try ticking "Amiga keyboard". Thats how I got mine to work a long time ago. I'm using a different keyboard now though.

@jahc

That.. appears to have worked! Thanks!

The installer implied that checking that box when the keyboard wasn't a real Amiga one would result in keys an Amiga keyboard doesn't have not working, but my Home/End and PgUp/PgDown still work. I haven't tested all of them yet.

@jbni

A desperate man will try many things to make something work. I need my \ key for \033 and \n when programming :)

@jahc

That brings up another problem I've just experienced on the Sam. When I try to open prefs/input it first brings up a requester that says "Parse error in keymap file flite.d unexpected EOF in line 1". Then I get a GR that I can click through and and bring up the prefs app. Everything else goes ok after that.

Edit:

Solved the problem by removing flite.device that somehow got into the keymaps dir.