[solved]Re: keyboard malfunction?

Bob Cortez rjcortez at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 21:20:18 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap at arumes.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:01:49 -0500, Jason Crain wrote:
>
>> Bob Cortez wrote:
>>> This is the alphabet according to my keyboard while running any
>>> applications. abcdefgh515306n6*qrst4vwxy
>>
>> This a laptop keyboard?  Laptops often have those keys mapped to numbers
>> when the Fn key is pressed.  Depending on the brand of laptop, you can
>> try pressing the Fn+F11 keys at the same time to set it back to normal
>> text mode.
>
> I don't think that's the problem, because some numbers are repeated and
> the positioning doesn't make sense.
>
> --
> Regards, Robert                                      http://www.arumes.com

It wasn't fn/f11  But I started trying all the fn keys and fn/del
seems to have fixed it.

Thanks for the help.  Wouldn't have thought of the fn keys.

Bob




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