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Re: keyboard problems



on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 01:13:52AM -0500, cletus.yokel@hushmail.com (cletus.yokel@hushmail.com) wrote:
> I have a weird problem with my keyboard, but I'm not sure what to check 
> to figure out the problem.
> 
> I have a desktop system, and the keyboard  works as expected in X and in 
> the console. However when I ssh into my gateway box, the keyboards works 
> fine in the commandline, but when I run a command like say nslookup, my 
> backspace key stops working.
> 
> Both systems are debian 2.2 stable. The keypad problem  also occurs when 
> I ssh to my boxes at home (telnet does the same BTW) from my sunbox at work.
> 
> I don't know much about terminal emulation, keymaps, and bindings, etc so 
> what can I read to try to troubleshoot this? I have a typical i386 style 
> keyboard with microsoft keys at home, and a type 5c sun keyboard at work.

Just a "me too".  Sometimes.  I'll get a keyboard fsckup, generally in
an X terminal, after invoking screen and bailing out of it in an
unwholesome manner.  No fix, but you're either not crazy or in good
company.

-- 
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 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
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