Alan McConnell wrote: ... > Yes. My keyboard was plugged into the _green_ port. (my > mouse is elsewhere). So I shut down, changed my keyboard > cord to the purple port . . . Voila! That did the > trick. I can now press F11 and Del and both work as > the manual says they should. Even the mouse, to my surprise, > makes its appearance. > > Mr Miata(should I write Signor? or Senor?), many thanks! > and I congratulate(and envy!) you for being so perceptive. > > And I thank all the rest of the debian-user membership > for being patient with me, and also thanks to those of you > who concerned youselves with this problem. It seems to me > that it wasn't an obvious problem given that so many > erroneous suggestions were made. I think it fortunate > that this E-list contains an expert of the quality of > Mr Mieta.
great news! glad you got it working. :) songbird