On Saturday 21 October 2006 17:18, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
The old guy is vision impaired and is beginning to have a lot of trouble seeing the keys on the keyboard. Decided to get a backlit keyboard.
Googling around amd looking at hardware vendors I find that there are quite a few offered from $15 to $400. Now I know I don't want the cheapo and can't afford the other end, and besides that I have no idea how effective or readable they are.
So the OT question is: Do any of you have experience with them or can make a reccomendation?? Prefer PS2
I have DeCK keyboards on my systems. It has big text on the keys and lots of LEDs keep it lit brightly, and it is built like a tank on a hefty slab of diamond plate metal. The model I have does not have the numeric keypad and I like it that way. That makes the keyboard quite compact and I never need the numeric keypad for coding. DeCK now sells version with the numeric keypad (the big keyboard comes in PS2 and USB versions). While they sell keyboards with a focus on the gaming crowd, the extra-rugged construction makes them great for coding, too. The small DeCK has worked fine on several systems here for all 9.x and 10.x SUSE versions. Note that the small keyboard is a USB keyboard. It works great once the system boots, but on my current computer it doesn't function for any of the BIOS screens or the grub menu. I don't care. I don't dual boot, so I never need to change grub. On the rare occasion I need to do something with the bios there are spare, el cheapo, no-name ps2 keyboards laying about here. Deck's home page: http://www.deckkeyboards.com/index.php I also found them being sold elsewhere http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=233&products_id=3840