function keys dead in 6.06 LTS Live dvd installation, need them badly.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 05 May 2007, Stew Schneider wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have no idea if those combo's work, but I'd suspect that they would work
>> just fine.  Those are not what I'm referring to however, the ones I want
>> are those keys, without any shift-alt-ctrl-or-winders modifiers, just the
>> plain old F1 through F12 keys all by themselves.  For some totally unk
>> reason, they are totally non-responsive when 6.06 is installed from the
>> live dvd.  But they worked just fine when that box was installed from the
>> original kubuntu-6.06-desktop-i386.iso cd.
>
>I know this is pretty obvious, but it did happen to me once...does your
>keyboard have a button that enables/disables the F keys? It's labeled
>"F" on mine...
>
>stew

On a $19 keyboard I bought because of its size?  Most keyboards are about 1/2" 
too wide for the little shelf this one sits on.  So it doesn't have a bunch 
of those tits on a boar extra keys we all spend hours trying to figure out 
some way to make them useful to a linux box.  No 'multimedia' keys that I'm 
aware of, but I will indeed check that before I go through the pain of yet a 
3rd reinstall.  Adept blew away the 1st, updating the kernel and such, I saw 
it, killed adept, but the machine had already been rendered unbootable by 
then.

Thanks for the hint, I appreciate it.

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