keyboard malfunctioning

Thomas Chadwick j_tetazoo@hotmail.com
Thu Aug 1 10:10:00 GMT 2002


I'll bet you have Caps Lock and/or Num Lock on.  Turn them off and see if 
that makes a difference.

I addressed this with a hack awhile back.  Look here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00307.html

>From: Curt <gte120r@prism.gatech.edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: keyboard malfunctioning
>Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:10:48 -0400
>
>Hi,
>I am having problems with my keyboard working when using XFree86. 
>Everything works fine until I run an X application on a remote system, 
>namely xloadl. I get the application window, but I can't type in anything. 
>The only keys that do anything on the keyboard are the spacebar, the Tab 
>key, and the enter key. Is this a problem with my configuration, or with 
>the server? Just as a background, I am new to UNIX and I work with Linux a 
>little bit.
>Thanks,
>Curtis Neff
>
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Materials Science and Engineering
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>office (404) 385-0698
>fax (404) 894-9140


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