[gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[James]

Hello,

I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs
or tricks for diagnosis the problem ?  The 'delete' key does not 
work in any application or on the cli.

It be nice to be able to  check out other keys (special function) 
with some sort of diagnostic tool.


Any ideas?

James

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[Benno Schulenberg]

James wrote:
> I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any
> programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ?

Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces 
scan codes.

Benno
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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[James]

Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg <at> gmail.com> writes:


> James wrote:
> > I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any
> > programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ?

> Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces 
> scan codes.

showkey shows  press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it working fine.
My second delete key works fine, but is in an awkward location
on the keyboard. This problem showed up recently after an emerge update world.

Any ideas how to fix this? new map?   When  I boot  (2.6.14-gentoo-r6)
the laptop, I get an error messge about :
System.map not found  can not  check symbols

Ideas?


James



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[Benno Schulenberg]

James wrote:
> showkey shows  press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it
> working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an
> awkward location on the keyboard.

On my keyboard the "normal" Delete key produces keycode 111, and the 
Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53.  Are you using the 
numeric Del as your normal delete key?  Then NumLock should be off, 
otherwise it'll produce a decimal point.

> Any ideas how to fix this? new map?   When  I boot 
> (2.6.14-gentoo-r6) the laptop, I get an error messge about :
> System.map not found  can not  check symbols

That is something different entirely.  When you install your kernel 
(which normally means copying bzImage to the /boot dir) you have to 
copy the System.map file (from the top dir of the kernel source) 
along with it, although this file is really only needed when you get 
oopses, so the kernel is able to tell in what function it occurs.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53.

Oops, I meant 83.

Benno
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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:benno.schulenberg@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 31 January 2006 18:29
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?
> 
> 
> > Any ideas how to fix this? new map?   When  I boot 
> > (2.6.14-gentoo-r6) the laptop, I get an error messge about :
> > System.map not found  can not  check symbols
> 
> That is something different entirely.  When you install your kernel 
> (which normally means copying bzImage to the /boot dir) you have to 
> copy the System.map file (from the top dir of the kernel source) 
> along with it, although this file is really only needed when you get 
> oopses, so the kernel is able to tell in what function it occurs.

I am also getting this on my boot script on two different boxes.  It
started a week ago after some update world.  I am about compile the
latest stable kernel to see if it goes away.
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Mick

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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?[New thread? - System.map not found]

[Rob Oravec]

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> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:25 +0000, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> I am also getting this on my boot script on two different boxes.  It
> started a week ago after some update world.  I am about compile the
> latest stable kernel to see if it goes away.

Same goes for me.
It appears to have started with the "2.6.15-gentoo-r1" kernel release
and I suspect (correct me if I'm wrong) a "udev" update which happened
around the same time IIRC.
The System.map file is there.

I have just updated to the new "2.6.15-gentoo-r2" kernel and the error
message is still there.

Rob


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