Re: Problems regarding Fn-key and others

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:59:36 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-05-13, Sebastian <bastiraase@arcor.de> wrote:
> I tried installing FreeBSD now on my notebook, but after booting I found our
> that there are some problems made with the keyboard by the installation
> system:
[snip]
> -> The key right of the left Shift-key (on a normal keyboard) is disabled,
> so I can't write the keys '<', '>' and '|'.

ObNitPick: ``a normal keyboard'', as in us-laid-out, does not have that key,
but a larger shift instead. Some others, like german-laid-out, do have it.

> The only problem is, that these problems resist under other OSs and it
> doesn't hide after rebooting.

What do you mean? You're saying that this problem persists across all
OSen tried on the laptop? If so, it's not a FreeBSD problem, but some
sort of hardware problem.

Or are you saying you did not have that problem before, but after installing
FreeBSD it popped up and didn't go away even after rebooting? What about
removing _all_ power including battery, wait a short while, then booting
again?

Before you do that, though, it is worth the trouble to check what your
keyboard layout is set to.

> A BIOS-update (with the actual one) didn't
> help. Sometimes, after installing many times, repartition and so on, it
> works, or it doesn't work.
> Now don't have any ideas why it is so nor how to make it work.

What about selecting the right (german) keyboard layout in the setup?

What did you do differently in the installations where it did work? Did
it work correctly still after rebooting from such an installation? 

-- 
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