On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: > Hi yall. > > I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like > to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. > > The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing > the shift key. Does this sound wierd (i.e. my hardware) or reasonable > (i.e. wierd but functional hardware with a mismatched driver). > > I'm not sure how I would go about trying to correct this issue. > > Any ideas where I should begin? > > Dennis Crowley.
How positive are you that the key is not just broken? Are you running X on the machine? If so, you can use a little stock X program called xev to view what events X is receiving, such as keystrokes. xev will tell you what keycode was pressed and the symname. Here is an example of the output when I run xev and then press the left Shift key: KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001, root 0x60, subw 0x0, time 755249477, (-600,175), root:(221,475), state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Perhaps this will help you to identify what, if anything, X is seeing when you press the Shift key. Nathan
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