Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:22:01 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Dennis Crowley <thecrowleys@sbcglobal.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard problem on laptop. Message-ID: <20050309152201.GQ3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <FGEBLPPPJEKAPBMHJDCEEELBCCAA.thecrowleys@sbcglobal.net> References: <FGEBLPPPJEKAPBMHJDCEEELBCCAA.thecrowleys@sbcglobal.net>
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--o6HUWsywbRjTg5uW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: > Hi yall. >=20 > I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like > to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. >=20 > The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing > the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable > (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). >=20 > I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. >=20 > Any ideas where I should begin? >=20 > Dennis Crowley. How positive are you that the key is not just broken? Are you running X on the machine? If so, you can use a little stock X program called xev to view what events X is receiving, such as keystrokes. xev will tell you what keycode was pressed and the symname. Here is an example of the output when I run xev and then press the left Shift key: KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001, root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 755249477, (-600,175), root:(221,475), state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes:=20 XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:=20 XFilterEvent returns: False Perhaps this will help you to identify what, if anything, X is seeing when you press the Shift key. Nathan --o6HUWsywbRjTg5uW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFCLxSZO0ZIEthSfkkRAmmXAJjZgaOI1T0ZvZw6RpOxV6TTMCZXAKCtdI+K t0Auy8PuP1hB0Nr3jWnITA== =f36q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --o6HUWsywbRjTg5uW--
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