[conspire] (forw) Testing New Keyboard

[Ruben Safir]

On 06/27/2015 01:46 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Well, seems to me like a defective keyboard.  This has nothing really to
> do with the operating system.  Except for some weird edge cases,
> changing out one keyboard for another should have no effect at an OS
> driver level.  The weird edge cases involve switching out, say, a
> conventional 103-key keyboard for a 105-key one with several special
> keys emitting unaccustomed scancodes, such that you need a different
> keyboard map.  But even in that edge case, all 103 of the regular keys
> should work fine, and the raw symptom might be that the two extra keys
> (only) produce no screen output or wrong screen output.


actually, he has me completely confused.  Why is there a USB cable
attached to his monitor which is attached to an external drive?

I get this weird feeling he has a switch box with a monitor connection
and mouse and keyboard?  Do you know what I'm talking about.

This is completely out of the blue on my part but that is how I'm
decoding this message.

Ruben