[ltp] Re: Weird Problem with MS Natural Keyboard

[morpheus]

Sorry to post a response to my own question, but I figured it out.
I used xev to see what events were generated when I pressed the keys. 
It seems that when I pressed any of the navigation keys, I got a
keypress event for the key I pressed (i.e. HOME or Right Arrow) folloed
by an extraneous keypress event for keycode 111, the Print key.  Not
sure why two events for two different keys are generated, could be a
driver bug.
Anyway, I worked around it by deleting the keycode definition for
keycode 111 in /etc/X11/kbd/keycodes/xfree86.  This means I cant use the
print key anymore, but I never use it anyway ;-(

-James

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 01:11, morpheus wrote:
> BY THE WAY: I don't have the problem when typing CTRL combinations on the Thinkpad's keyboard, even when the MS keyboard is attached.
> 
> I've just connected a MS natural multimedia keyboard to my T42p, and I
> have a very strange problem.
> Whenever I use any CTRL key combinations for navigation (i.e. CTRL-HOME
> or CTRL-Right Arrow), there is a long delay (2 secs) before the cursor
> moves.  Also, whenever I do this, I cannot paste the contents of the
> clipboard (if I go to Klipper and manually select the last thing I
> copied, I can paste it).
> Has anyone ever seen this?  I was thinking maybe these keys are set up
> as some strange keyboard shortcut, but I checked and that's not the
> problem.
> Enviro: T42p / FC2 / 2.6.6-1.435 / KDE3
> 
> -James