Re: The right Shift Key not working ?!?
On Son, 2002-12-29 at 10:42, simonraven@istop.com wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:54:38 -1000, Angela Kahealani composed:
> > On Friday, 2002-12-27 01:31, simonraven@istop.com wrote:
> >
> > between the YDL and Debian PPC ports is
> > the area of the kernel containing this error,
> > since both distributions exhibit the bug. The
> > keycode maps have been verified / manually
> > updated so X should work, but it doesn't. The
> > screensaver module in KDE sees the right
> > shift key, but the text input handling doesn't.
>
> sounds like a kernel thing alright, but why some machines and some not?
> i run a fairly recent kernel and i don't have that issue.
If it was a kernel issue I'd expect there to be visible differences in
xev, xmodmap, ... It rather sounds like a toolkit or X server bug to me.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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