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From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
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To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com>
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Subject: Re: ThinkPad X20 keyboard mapping problems
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> I wonder if anyone on the list using the ThinkPad X20 has had their 
> keyboard mapping go screwy in the middle of a session.  I'm helping a 
> friend with his new 4.3-RELEASE installation and it's happened a 
> half-dozen times this evening.  After it occurs, the keys sometimes 
> generate characters that resemble hieroglyphics, other times it's 
> just wrong characters for the key.  The only remedy is to reset and 
> reboot.  Most vexing and frustrating.  Could termcap lack a suitable 
> entry for the ThinkPad or something like that?  OTOH, everything 
> seems to work fine until it suddenly goes stupid.  I'm grasping at 
> straws here.

This used to happen on *really* old ThinkPads, but IBM fixed it a long
time agao.


Nate

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