On Tuesday 12 September 2006 23:57, Paul Abrahams wrote:
This is a full-size keyboard, and holding down Fn while pressing other keys doesn't seem to change the keycode. Look in xev again. The Fn key may not have a keycode of its own, but it may affect the "symbol" of another keycode. You will notice that ctl, shift, and alt, do not change the keycodes of the keys they affect... but they do affect the keysym--- the symbol for the key in X. Just a thought. I agree with the previous post... usually the Fn key is a hardware thing in the keyboard... and yes, your bath may have disturbed just one key. You may want to take it apart and thoroughly dry it out, wipe it down, and reassemble it. Is this keyboard usb, ps2, AT? Is the Fn button a different color ... the Fn button on my laptop is blue, and the hardware keys that it affects are also blue or have secondary caps that are blue. On a black screen console does the key show up in 'showkey'? Hit the key a few times on a black screen terminal (not X, and have X down) and then press ctrl-alt-F10 and look at the messages... see if the key shows up there as 'not known' by the kernel.
-- Kind regards, M Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net