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

[O. Sinclair]

As many others I am not 100 what is the problem but in System Settings, 
Keyboard & Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts - can you not achieve by fiddling 
around there what you want to do?

Sinclair

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007, Ron Morse wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 08:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> Maybe I didn't state the problem well enough before.
>>>
>>> It appears the function keys are all disabled or intercepted by the x
>>> server, on an install based on the 6.06 live dvd.
>> That's very odd.  You say nothing at all happens when you press
>> <ctrl>+<alt>+<F1>?  (<ctrl>+<alt><F7> will restore you in case something
>> does happen...<g>).
> 
> 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.
> 
> So I guess I reinstall again, this time from the cd, since the live dvd is 
> labeled as kubuntu-6.06.1-dvd-i386.iso.  Note the 6.06.1, whatever the .1 
> means. By the time I get the rest of the software installed on top of that, 
> it will be at least a 'rest of the day' operation, and that's about a 10-34 
> tor vacuum.
> 
> Thanks to all who opined on this.
>