Re: Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is
I had a dell technician come out to a datacenter because a box wouldn't
come up. the cpu and mainboard were eventually replaced. somehow it was
discovered that it would boot fine if that $2 keyboard was not plugged
in! the tech put in his notes, must use factory keyboard. :)
just a thought...
// George
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:09:27PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
>I discovered a bizarre problem with my XFree86 (xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-3): the
>Ctrl+Alt+1 combo does not seem to be generated. Under "xev" I see an event for
>the Ctrl key down, Alt key down, but not for the 1... pressing 1 at that point
>generates no X11 event. Oddly, the other digits in 1's place work fine. I've
>even tested this by firing up just a plain xterm in .xsession instead of a
>window manager, and running xev from there.
>
>Any hints as to what might be wrong and how to proceed in uncovering the
>culprit? Can anyone verify that this combo works fine on their Debian setup?
>(preferably on a setup similar to mine: Debian is setup here on a DELL Inspiron
>7000 laptop; even a desktop Pentium II or higher might be still a good point of
>reference).
>
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