From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 15:22:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C925816A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5B243D31 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:22:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend3.messagingengine.com (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD209C6029A; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:22:05 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: Bd9LWNDaM2j1iu26ThEkXw 1110381724 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75CC2553F; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:22:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1D930c-000357-73; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:22:02 -0600 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:22:01 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Dennis Crowley Message-ID: <20050309152201.GQ3678@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="o6HUWsywbRjTg5uW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard problem on laptop. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:22:08 -0000 --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--