Re: Keyboard failure?


Subject: Re: Keyboard failure?
From: Romeyn Prescott (prescor@digirom.potsdam.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 06:27:03 MDT


Somewhen around 3:10 PM -0600 4/1/01, a person believing themself to
be Derrik Pates scribbled:
>On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>
>> I just got mol running on my G4/400 running LinuxPPC Q4. I installed
>> Mac OS 9.0.4 to an image file. It boots wonderfully. And FAST! My
>> problem: Keyboard commands don't work. Yet the keyboard appears to
>> function in some capacity. Curious, I opened Key Caps (there's
>> nothing wrong with the mouse) and none of the physical keys register
>> as their logical counterparts! I press, for example, "z" and maybe
>> "i" gets executed.
>
>Look in your /etc/molrc, and find the 'use_linux_keycodes:' line. If it's
>commented, uncomment it. Try both 'yes' and 'no' for it, see if either
>gives you any satisfaction.

Hrm...

I don't have a line like that! I'm using the default file (duly
tweaked, of course) and that entry is nowhere to be found! I'm going
to try rebooting and watching the boot sequence for indication of my
Keyboard's ID, but it goes by so damned FAST!!!

...ROMeyn

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