Raspberry pi 2 keyboard issue

zerocoolisgod • 2016-05-12*2016-05-12 21:40* •

I have pico 8 up and running on my pi2. Everything seems fine except every special key (alt, shift, page-up, etc..) generates a space. Or at least something that looks like a space. This only happens in the console, the editor is fine, and works as expected. The keyboard is a generic en-usa usb keyboard, that works as expected everywhere else in the pi. My distribution is retro-pi current and up to date.

besser • 2016-05-13*2016-05-13 00:51*

Me too, I have this same issue on my Pi3 with Raspbian and Retropie 3.6.

zerocoolisgod • 2016-05-13*2016-05-13 02:13*

Do you have love2d installed as well? Love needed a weird version of sdl2, I'm wondering if that might be the problem.

zerodynamics • 2016-05-14*2016-05-14 08:17*

Im having the same problem on Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspian (Jessie)

Godzil • 2016-05-14*2016-05-14 19:22*

Same problem here and it's a bit annoying :(

e3th • 2016-05-18*2016-05-18 12:39*

Same problem here. Moreover, using the Spanish keyboard layout I can't type "<" or ">" into the code editor. I suspect SDL scancodes are at fault.

Danimaltl • 2016-06-12*2016-06-12 21:21*

Well here's the thread, also have this issue on the RPI2.

farvardin • 2016-06-13*2016-06-13 03:29*

Same for me (rpi2 + raspbian), alt doesn't seem to work, so I can't exit using alt+F4, but if I remember well, control + q is working.

petri • 2016-06-13*2016-06-13 13:50*

Same for me. I couldn't use "_" to install demos.

ztiromoritz • 2016-06-18*2016-06-18 20:28*

Same issue here on rpi3 B + raspbian(2016-05-27) + pico8 0.1.6.
Version 0.1.5 works more reliable in this setup. At least ALT does not produce spaces.

( @e3th What distribution do you use? On raspian even if the keyboard layout was set via the gui tool (to german layout in my case) it worked everywhere but in pico8. I had to set it in /etc/default/keyboard to use the right layout.