Broken key

[Anders Gjendemsjø]

My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
PageDown.

Is this possible? And if, how?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Anders

[mjt]

Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

> My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
> act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
> PageDown.
>
> Is this possible? And if, how?

.... keyboard howto:
[url]http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWKYBRD[/url]

--
/// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\
\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
\\\ [url]http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mtobler/mjt_linux_page.html[/url] ///
A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying,
"Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny
bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the
lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and
breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the
Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of
the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt
thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then
proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being
the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand
Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight,
shall snuff it."
-- Monty Python, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

[Seth H Holmes]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

> My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
> act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
> PageDown.
>
> Is this possible? And if, how?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

--
Seth H Holmes

[Anders Gjendemsjø]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Seth H Holmes wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

> > My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
> > act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
> > PageDown.
> >
> > Is this possible? And if, how?
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.

>
> Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

For a toshiba laptop?

Anders

[Peter T. Breuer]

Anders Gjendemsjo <gjendems@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Seth H Holmes wrote:

>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjo wrote:

>> > My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
>> > act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
>> > PageDown.
>> >
>> > Is this possible? And if, how?
>> >
>> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.

>>
>> Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

> For a toshiba laptop?

No - it'll cost about $50-100 from a toshiba parts supplier.

Peter

[Anders Gjendemsjø]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> Anders Gjendemsjo <gjendems@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Seth H Holmes wrote:

>

> >> In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjo wrote:
> >> > My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
> >> > act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
> >> > PageDown.
> >> >
> >> > Is this possible? And if, how?
> >> >
> >> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

>

> > For a toshiba laptop?

>
> No - it'll cost about $50-100 from a toshiba parts supplier.
>
> Peter

And that is the reason I want to fix it with a simple and FREE
solution...

Anders

[Seth H Holmes]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031711380.20414@tiger.stud.ntnu .no>, Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Seth H Holmes wrote:
>

>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

>> > My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
>> > act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
>> > PageDown.
>> >
>> > Is this possible? And if, how?
>> >
>> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.

>>
>> Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

>
> For a toshiba laptop?

Hey, imagine that... you didn't put that in the post.

Look on ebay. Bet you can find one cheap.

--
Seth H Holmes

[Peter T. Breuer]

Anders Gjendemsjo <gjendems@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

>> Anders Gjendemsjo <gjendems@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:

>> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Seth H Holmes wrote:

>>

>> >> In article <Pine.LNX.4.51.0307031336270.7152@tiger.stud.ntnu. no>, Anders Gjendemsjo wrote:
>> >> > My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
>> >> > act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
>> >> > PageDown.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is this possible? And if, how?
>> >> >
>> >> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Dude, you get can a new keyboard for $10.

>>

>> > For a toshiba laptop?

>>
>> No - it'll cost about $50-100 from a toshiba parts supplier.

> And that is the reason I want to fix it with a simple and FREE
> solution...

It's not worth it. $50 is peanuts for making your laptop work properly
again.

Peter

[mjt]

Anders Gjendemsjø wrote:

> And that is the reason I want to fix it with a simple and FREE
> solution...

.... my post provided a free solution. unless you want ME
to modify the files, then the fee comes to $250us/hour :)
..
--
/// Michael J. Tobler: motorcyclist, surfer, skydiver, \\\
\\\ and author: "Inside Linux", "C++ HowTo", "C++ Unleashed" ///
\\\ [url]http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mtobler/mjt_linux_page.html[/url] ///
Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you
bite your nails.

[Anders Gjendemsjø]

xmodmap did the job. Thanks for your help.

Anders

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Alex Yung wrote:

> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Gjendemsj=F8?= (gjendems@stud.ntnu.no) wrote:
> : My arrow-down key is broken. I was thinking of letting Linux Redhat 8.0
> : act as arrow-down key was pressed when I pressed another key, e.g
> : PageDown.
>
> : Is this possible? And if, how?
>
> : Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> : Anders
>
> For text console, you can use "loadkeys" to re-map keystroke. For X,
> you can use "xmodmap".
>