The Case of the Missing Characters, revisited

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 2 05:27:43 UTC 2007


From: "kwhiskerz{" <kuiskers at telus.net>

> On February 1, 2007, Tim wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 12:42 -0700, kwhiskerz kwhiskerz wrote:
>> > I have noticed that when I am typing, the letters v,b,f,g,r,t,4,5 do
>> > not always type, making it very difficult to write emails and enter
>> > commands.
>>
>> Not discounting the possiblity of software issues, I would be suspicious
>> of the keyboard, particularly if you attribute a problem to a group of
>> keys, like that.  Some are far worse than others.
>
> I am fearing that. It is a German keyboard, which would be difficult to 
> get on
> this side of the 'Teich' (Pond). The curious thing is that a guy on
> fedoraforum mentioned the same problem about 2 weeks ago.

Hook up any old alternative and see if that set of characters works or not.
If it works and the other keyboard doesn't - maybe NewEgg or one of its
competitors could provide a German keyboard. Shipping might take a
long time or be expensive, though.

{^_^} 




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