hmmm ... Couldn't you have used an external PS2 keyboard?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Sindhu Sundar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi! > I found out that repairing the laptop is going to cost a bomb, so am going > to let my brother use the desktop. My dilemma was that on the desktop we do > not have a optical drive, on the laptop we do, now we had a ton of CDs which > we wanted to make images out of, with the keyboard conked off on the laptop, > it almost seemed impossible. > > I then used "onboard" onscreen keyboard on Ubuntu and extracted ISOs from > the CDs (dd ofcourse!). > > Linux ftw \m/ > > Thanks for the help, just wanted to share this :) > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Vikas Gorur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 2009/6/16 Sindhu S <[email protected]>: >> > >> > What can be done about this? Is there any way to confirm which keys in >> > particular are dead? >> >> Under X run "xev" in a terminal and press the keys and see what it prints. >> That should tell you something. >> >> Vikas >> >> >> > > > > -- - Shashishekhar S --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
