On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:52 +0100, David Causse wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to make live music with a computer. My problem is I want to > control the PC with the PC keyboard. Freewheeling permits to control > with the PC keyboard. > > My keyboard have some annoying limitations for example I can press at > the same time the letters 'azer', 'qsdf', 'uiop' but I am unable to > press 'rtyu' at the same time, nothing is printed. I guess it is due to > some limitations in its design. I'm afraid it's a hardware issue and I > won't find an easy workaround. I'm also afraid that this special use of > a keyboard is not the mind of manufacturers... it is in fact a hardware problem. AFAIK, it is common in some form to every keyboard ever made, although the precise impossible combinations vary when you compare things like a Sun keyboard to a standard PC one. its caused by the "matrix" below the keys - its like a bus system in which several keys share the same bus. if one of them is using the bus, the others can't. --p
