From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Apr 21 9:50:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C8F637B42C for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:50:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 11266 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 16:50:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 21 Apr 2001 16:50:18 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3LGoFY26269; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:50:15 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: alt/meta on toshiba From: Harry Putnam Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 21 Apr 2001 09:50:15 -0700 Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Running 4.2-STABLE On a Toshiba 4005CDS I'm an emacs user and would like to use the left alt on my keyboard for emacs `meta' key rather than having to use ESC. It seems pressing the left alt key doesn't send any keysym at all. Not only not to emacs which can be checked with `C-h l' after pressing keys, but not to the terminal either. This may not be the most sophisticated way to check but I checked by typing: `cat ' Then typing ALT-b. All I see is the `b' Where as Ctrl-b shows ^b Is this a hardware thing that cannot be changed or something OS related I can do to make the left alt key work for emacs? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message