[gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong writes: > As to how I know C-v is verbatim? That came from trying to create > ASCII art by hand ... :) He he... yeah thats the way thinking works... bouncing around like that. I've used C-v for years as a way to see what is actually being sent from the keyboard.. I never knew it mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:11:17PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm curious how'd you know it was readline related? Since it also appears in SSH, it is something wrong with the box, and not how you interface with it. You said "Ctrl-v fixed it", so odds are that you are not in the wrong keyboard

[gentoo-user] Re: Unusual console input problem certain keys dead

2009-01-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Willie Wong writes: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam > squawked: >> Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think >> there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and >> Xterm in a X session on another machine. I may not have