Quoting whollyg...@letterboxes.org (whollyg...@letterboxes.org):

> When capslock is on, the letters o, p and m remain lowercase
> unless the shift key is pressed.  These are the only letter
> keys that do this.  They are also the only letter keys that
> have altgr values assigned to them (the other altgr values
> are assigned to non-letter keys)
> 
> When keymaps used to be in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables, I used to
> be able to fix this by changing the cf.map file using the letter
> "o" as an example, from:
> 
>    keycode 24 = o   O   section
> 
> to:
> 
>    keycode 24 = o
>       altgr keycode 24 = section
> 
> I tried something similar by modifying 
> /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/cf.map.gz by adding:
> 
>    keycode 24 = o
> 
> above the line
> 
>    altgr keycode 24 = section
> 
> (and the corresonding lines for p and m).  That fixed
> the annoying caps lock upper case problem, but the altgr
> characters were printed as white blanks rather the the 
> proper symbol.
> 
> This problem does not exist under Xorg, but I am usually
> on the console, so if there were a fix available, it
> would be appreciated greatly.


That problem seems to be another incarnation of #499608.

Could you try installing kbd?


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