Janina yes, it looks like this has two alt keys. I've got to get sited help to help me install redhat on this as 1 I don't know the laptop keyboard, and 2 with out screen review functions or a normal keyboard I have no clue how to get this thing to work. though from looking at the keyboard I think it has two alt keys. On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > yDedra: > > Do you have two alt keys? There's a keymap that distinguishes > between them so that you can get different functions from the > right and left alt keys. > > Also, does your portable have a ps2 connection port? Often, in > order to attach a qwerty keyboard, you can't just plug it into > this port, you must get a y connector to pass the keyboard > through. This is the way it works with all of the IBM Thinkpads > I've had, including this one I'm writing on now as the conference > I'm attending proceeds. > > Yes, I'm on an ethernet connection in a hotel during a meeting > with my Thinkpad. > > By the way, we lost something when our screen review went to > numlock off. I think, Mr. Kirk, I'd like to protest and ask for > reconsideration on that. > > Here's the problem. > > I have no way to get screen review, because I didnot bring a 104 > keyboard with y connector, and I also didn't bring along an > external numeric keypad. While this machine, and many others like > it, will supply a pop up numeric, it will not supply the home, > end, page up, page down, etc. functions of the numeric. There's > no use for them and they're not available. Having speakup's > review mapped this way effectively means no screen review on a > portable, at least most of the portables I know. > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
