Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 06:23:49AM EST, roberto wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. > >> > > >> > Try: > >> > > >> > $ xmodmap - > >> > keycode 113 = Alt_R > >> > Ctrl+Dน > actually it worked again after restar

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-20 Thread roberto
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:16:56AM EST, roberto wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chris Jones wrote: >> > >> > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. >> > >> > Try: >> > >> > $ xmodmap - >> > keycode 113 = Alt_R >> > Ct

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:16:56AM EST, roberto wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. > > > > Try: > > > > $ xmodmap - > > keycode 113 = Alt_R > > Ctrl+Dน > > > > And check whether your Alt key is working again. >

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-10 Thread roberto
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > > Basically says that your Alt key is mapped to AltGr. > > Try: > > $ xmodmap - > keycode 113 = Alt_R > Ctrl+D? > > And check whether your Alt key is working again. > > CJ > > ? Followed by a dash, xmodmap reads your commands form stdin. After

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:49:29PM EST, roberto wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > wrote: > >> well, running showkey as root from vt1 gives me: > >> 0x64 0xe4 > >> > >> so the kernel recognizes the key but anyway it does not work under X > >> (kdm is the manager for

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-09 Thread roberto
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> well, running showkey as root from vt1 gives me: >> 0x64 0xe4 >> >> so the kernel recognizes the key but anyway it does not work under X >> (kdm is the manager for kde 3.5) > > now try xev in an xterm and see what output you get for

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:54:01PM +0100, roberto wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Tony Nelson > wrote: > >>  From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the > >> console-tools package installed.  The showkeys program is in that > >> package.  If you need to figure out ho

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-09 Thread roberto
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Tony Nelson wrote: >>  From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the >> console-tools package installed.  The showkeys program is in that >> package.  If you need to figure out how/what it is for, I suggest you >> try reading the man page. > > I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-08 17:05:39, Wayne wrote: > > From: roberto ... > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne wrote: ... > > Have you checked out the console-tools package? > > > > The showkey program for instance. > > yes and i get > ~$ showkey > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console >

[Fwd: Re: Alt key not working]

2009-12-08 Thread Wayne
Original Message Subject: Re: Alt key not working Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:25:41 +0100 From: roberto To: Wayne References: <4bcde3e10912080934t4b85e591j23f729a6658d4...@mail.gmail.com> <4b1e9851.2010...@gmail.com> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Wayne wro

Re: Alt key not working

2009-12-08 Thread Wayne
roberto wrote: hello, i use debian 5.0 and recently i ran into the following strange malfunctioning: i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped working is there any way to get an idea of what is going on ? thank you very much in advance Have you checked out the consol

Re: Alt key not working

2009-12-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 12. 2009 18:34:32 je roberto napisal(a): > i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped > working Meaning what? Try running xev to see if it actually "stopped" working. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com

Alt key not working

2009-12-08 Thread roberto
hello, i use debian 5.0 and recently i ran into the following strange malfunctioning: i do not know why, but the Alt key of the keyboard suddenly stopped working is there any way to get an idea of what is going on ? thank you very much in advance -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-