Keyboard layout changed after update

[Chielemans]

Hi all,

Problem with my raspberry pi 3:

I have a problem: my keyboard layout changed somewhere after the october update. I am using a Rii i8 mini wireless keyboard and somehow some characters are located in a wrong place.

Instead of the letter “m” I see a semi-colon “;”, the letter m has moved all the way to the right where the forward slash “/” should be.

I’ve done some searching on this forum, tried the first solutions that were offered, including:

• reconfiguring the locale
• installing console-data and console-update and reconfiguring the console keyboard
• I’ve checked the settings of kodi and reset them (chose a different country, then back to my own country).

Still no luck, alas.

Anyone have an idea on how to approach this further?

Thanks in advance,

[Hablaras]

I also have the same issue with the exact same symptoms. Started after updating to OSMC Krypton-beta3 I believe.

It is still there in the Kodi Krypton Beta 7 from here:

[TESTING] Kodi 17 (Krypton) Beta Builds for all platforms

Hello, Current preview version: Kodi Krypton Release Candidate 4 Kodi Krypton development is well underway, and the final release is expected shortly. I have completed our rebase of OSMC patches for Kodi Krypton and we are now in a position to offer test builds. All platforms supported by Jarvis remain supported, including the AppleTV. However, with the introduction of the new default skin, Estuary, Apple TV 1st Generation users and original Raspberry Pi users with 256MB RAM may experience di…

[Hablaras]

I couldn’t find anything helpful anywhere, so I created a new keymap file for the Rii Mini i8 keyboard.

You can download it here: https://github.com/hablaras/rii-keymap/raw/master/rii.kmap.gz

1. Copy rii.kmap.gz to /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/

2. Test using “loadkeys”:
   root@osmc:/home/osmc# loadkeys rii
   Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/rii.kmap.gz
   The change is effective immediately in OSMC; no reboot needed

3. Add loadkeys rii to /etc/rc.local file one line above “exit 0” and set 755 (execution allowed) on that file:
   loadkeys rii
   exit 0

I haven’t mapped the special keys like volume up, volume down, mail, mute, etc. Don’t know if they work.
Tested on OSMC Krypton RC4

[Chielemans]

I found a solution: my keyboard was broken, so I bought a new one. That fixed it. No idea how this can be helpful, but maybe an approach would be to reinstall a driver or something.