Can't Make a Tilde

[rabbit]

Pressing shift+` doesn't give me a tilde.  Grr.  I set my keyboard layout to match my keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard), but still nothing.  Any ides?

[MyndFyre]

Kill yourself.

[Joe]

Copy and paste. ~

EDIT -
Linux might be racist against your keyboard manufacturer.

[iago]

Set your keyboard to a normal 104-key (or whatever)?

[rabbit]

Tried several, 101-107, Microsoft Internet (which it is) and "Generic", but I can't make a tilde.

[Joe]

Try the other shift key?

[Blaze]

x86] link=topic=6389.msg76623#msg76623 date=1151049679]
Kill yourself.

Good advice!  It really is too bad rabbit fails at following instructions.  er... Read this!  (My fail safe! :D)

[Joe]

Damn it. I read it.

[rabbit]

I still can't make a damn tilde!

[Joe]

x86] link=topic=6389.msg80021#msg80021 date=1152591346]
Try the other shift key?

It's really no help if you don't tell us if you tried it or not.

[rabbit]

If I didn't try, why would I say it doesn't work?

[iago]

If I didn't try, why would I say it doesn't work?

Because several things were suggested, and you didn't quote anybody.  You also didn't say what you've tried in the past, which could help. 

It would be nice to know what steps you've taken and what has failed to work. 

Eg: have you tried a different keyboard?  A different Linux (Knoppix, or something else off a cd)?  Changing the keyboard mapping?  Using the other shift?  Copying/pasting the ~?

Try
  dmesg | grep -i "key"
See if it has any messages about your keyboard.  Also:
  cat /var/log/messages | grep -i "key"

[rabbit]

Different keyboards don't work.
Neither shift makes it.
dmesg and cat didn't give anything.
It worked on Slack a few months ago, and on my first install of Fedora.
Copy & paste works fine, but I don't want to have to do that every time I need to make a tilde.

[Joe]

Reinstall Slackware. Again.

[iago]

Does it only happen in X?  Or does it also happen in the TTY console?