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> I have installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Gateway Solo 1450 Laptop and my
> keyboard doesn't work right. A example is my letter l displays "o"
> not the letter "l". It will work if I hold the "fn" key down just
> like if I were pressing the Caps Lock key down continously. I have
> researched this a little bit. Do you have any ideas on what this.

Perhaps it's not 'o', but '0'? Could it be that NumLock or ScrollLock
are set, so part of the keyboard is acting like a numeric pad? Depends
on the BIOS and layout...

> Please, let me know if anyone can help or not. I have installed it on
> a desktop just fine but it appears there is something it doesn't like
> about my keyboard drivers. Thanks, 
> 
> Sean Sneed.

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