Odd keyboard behavior

Bx.Cornwell wrote:
 > have you tried booting onto a win98 floppy, to dos, and running a program
 > that'll display the scancodes as you press buttons on the keyboard? this
 > would significantly help you diagnose exactly what's going on.... (sorry,
 > i don't have a program like this that's user-friendly enough to let others
 > use.... and the one i do have, isn't currently accessible from where i'm
 > at right now... check the net for dos programs that'll display scancodes)

I was looking for just such a program, but couldn't really find one that
would do escaped scancodes very well... it would to the function keys, but
not the "alternate function" - which happened to just be the same scancode,
but escaped, with 0xE0. (this is on a Logitech Elite)

Anway, there was a very good linux utility which should be part of most
distros, think it was scankey.

Not sure if it would be on one of the Live CDs from say, Gentoo. If it was,
you could just boot from the Live CD, and when it's done booting, just type
"scankey" and you'd be away.

Ben
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"Ben Pope" <spam.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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 > Bx.Cornwell wrote:
  > > have you tried booting onto a win98 floppy, to dos, and running a
program
  > > that'll display the scancodes as you press buttons on the keyboard? this
  > > would significantly help you diagnose exactly what's going on....
(sorry,
  > > i don't have a program like this that's user-friendly enough to let
others
  > > use.... and the one i do have, isn't currently accessible from where i'm
  > > at right now... check the net for dos programs that'll display
scancodes)
 >
 > I was looking for just such a program, but couldn't really find one that
 > would do escaped scancodes very well... it would to the function keys, but
 > not the "alternate function" - which happened to just be the same
scancode,
 > but escaped, with 0xE0. (this is on a Logitech Elite)
 >
 > Anway, there was a very good linux utility which should be part of most
 > distros, think it was scankey.
 >
 > Not sure if it would be on one of the Live CDs from say, Gentoo. If it
was,
 > you could just boot from the Live CD, and when it's done booting, just
type
 > "scankey" and you'd be away.
 >
 > Ben
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i'd consider even posting my sourcecode here if someone wants to update it
for it to be more user friendly.... but... if i'm remembering correctly, i
wrote the code directly in DEBUG (only having to go back once to fix a
forward jump)... it was really short.... saved int9... redirected int9...
looped until a FINISHED flag was set... restored int9, and exited......
the custom int9 handler would print every byte to the screen in hex... ESC
would clear screen... SysRq would set the FINISHED flag.......

very very simple program.... both make and break codes would print... but...
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