| Title: | Alpha Workstation Conference |
| Notice: | See note 1.* for conference notices |
| Moderator: | WRKSYS::HOUSE |
| Created: | Wed Sep 07 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1996 |
| Total number of notes: | 9122 |
Hello,
I recently got a strange problem : in OSF4.0a, customer received
some as255 FIS with LK47W-A2 keyboard.
Customer "setld -d"'ed some subsets. Somedays ago, he called back because
when he is using dtcalc with the numpad, only the 5 key is working and
echoed. The other keys seem not working or not be echoed.
Customer said me that when using dtterm or dxterm, if he press the
4 numpad key, 4 is displayed.
On other sustem, that works fine. ??? !!! ???
If you want, I have a setld-output from working and not-working system
Does this problem be caused by a removed file ??? or by a unintalled
subset ????
Does someone have explanation for that strange thing ??
Thanks and hope replies ...
Kind Regards,
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I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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| 1967.1 | Try Some Basic Swaps... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Wed May 14 1997 15:35 | 14 |
Make sure that the keyboard type is set up appropriately in the X Windows session manager. If so, this looks like a keyboard hardware problem, or a problem with the UNIX drivers, or something specific to dtcalc. I'd try swapping this keyboard to another system, and swapping a known-working keyboard over to this system... I'd also check and see if one of the "setld -d" deleted subsets contained any keyboard mapping files -- though I'd expect this to have caused some problems rather more obvious than this. (Some of the folks over in the UNIX notes conference will know more about the contents of the subsets.) [This question does not appear specific to the AlphaStation itself.] | |||||
| 1967.2 | NNTPD::"[email protected]" | Th FAIDHERBE | Thu May 15 1997 07:01 | 53 | |
Thanks for reply.
I asked the following test to customer.
In fact, I suspect that a freeware cd program have made some keyboard
remapping or something strange.
Step 1 : backup / and /usr on one tape the dtcalc not working system.
Step 2 : try to reboot these system.
when rebooted, don't run any other prog.
test with dtcalc.
If problem occurs once more, do in order the following steps :
Step 3 : Reinstall from scratch the OS.
Don't install NSR, fortran, or any other additionnal subset.
Choose only the ALL OF THE ABOVE in the installation
menu.
%%%%% DON'T INSTALL FREEWARE CDROM PLEASE %%%%%
Configure network, automount, mail (8-]) .....
Reboot,
try again dtcalc...
Step 4 : Only if dtcalc works fine in step 3
try to add the additional subset (nsr, fortran,.... )
%%%%% DON'T INSTALL FREEWARE CDROM PLEASE %%%%%
reboot
try again dtcalc.
Step 5 : Only if dtcalc works fine in step 3 %%% AND %%% step 4
try now to install and run your freeware cd programs.
and test dtcalc.
I remember you that
NO SUPPORT IS PROVIDED FOR FREEWARE PROGS
I am now waiting for status of these tests.
Thanks once more.
Once I received news, I will add one reply ....
Have a nice day,
Thierry
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