Keyboard computers (400, 500, 500+) • PI 500+ Keyboard Issues

Hello,

I just received my 500+ but the keyboard does not display the correct keys when typing. Trying to fix the issue with the GUI preferences, then with raspi-config, and then with locale-gen/update-locale have all failed.

For the ~ key, it give ¬
For the pipe key it give #
For the backslash key it gives ~
For the double quote key it give @

This is an US layout 500+ keyboard.

Keyboard: Generic 105-key PC
Layout: English (US)
Variant: English (US)

Locale: en
Country: US
Char Set: UTF-8

If I try to set things with raspi-config I get an error stating something a L1 locale error.

Really surprised this configuration doesn't work out of the box. Any ideas of how to fix?

Statistics: Posted by smacintyre — Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:52 pm

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