Forgot to tell you that I have dual boot with XP as the other OS and there
all the keys works ok.
On 4/16/06, Per Kustemo
Have the same problem with mine, only some of the signs in alt gr works like the @ works and pipe not.
On 4/16/06, James Knott < james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
On 16/04/06, James Knott < james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
James David Jacobs wrote:
I have a Dell Inspiron 2100 Laptop. A number of keys do not work, either in a terminal or in KDE. For example, neither Alt key nor
Kevanf1 wrote: the
right arrow work. None of these keys generate scan codes in Showkey.
Any idea how to get these keys to work? It sounds like you may have a hardware failure. Can you plug in a regular keyboard, to see if those keys work?
Or, try the keyboard on another PC? Just in case it is the keyboard that is at fault. It may just need cleaning which is 'usually' an easy enough job with some cotton buds and some ethyl alcohol.
Since the keyboard is part of a laptop, it's a bit hard to move it to another computer. ;-)
Also, given that more than one key is bad, it's unlikely caused by dirt,
unless something was spilled on it. Keyboards are built on a matrix, with each key at an intersection of a row and column. Often one row or column will fail, causing all the keys along it to stop working. When that happens, the repair generally involves replacing the keyboard.