I had a dell technician come out to a datacenter because a box wouldn't come up. the cpu and mainboard were eventually replaced. somehow it was discovered that it would boot fine if that $2 keyboard was not plugged in! the tech put in his notes, must use factory keyboard. :)
just a thought... // George On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:09:27PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: >I discovered a bizarre problem with my XFree86 (xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-3): the >Ctrl+Alt+1 combo does not seem to be generated. Under "xev" I see an event for >the Ctrl key down, Alt key down, but not for the 1... pressing 1 at that point >generates no X11 event. Oddly, the other digits in 1's place work fine. I've >even tested this by firing up just a plain xterm in .xsession instead of a >window manager, and running xev from there. > >Any hints as to what might be wrong and how to proceed in uncovering the >culprit? Can anyone verify that this combo works fine on their Debian setup? >(preferably on a setup similar to mine: Debian is setup here on a DELL Inspiron >7000 laptop; even a desktop Pentium II or higher might be still a good point of >reference). > >-- >Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
