Ok, I've decided to swap out boards on one of thse old luggables: I was in my local Computer Renaissance and spotted a socket 7 board with an AT keyboard port - just the ticket. $5. The mobo turned out to be the trusty Asus P55T2P4: a quick web search turned up a Tom's hardware article about using an AMD K6+ 500 CPU in it, and I just happened to have one laying around! So, it's looking like an interesting project. I'm not able to get the full speed out of the processor though: the BIOS report will only show me 400Mhz, even though I followed all the directions at Tom's about jumper shunts on the multipliers and so forth. The revision of this board *is* slightly newer than the one in the article, so maybe they messed up some overclocking features on the newer boards. Anyhooz, the current query is about the wierdo keyboard on these things. I would especially appreciate input from the Linux crowd, since I plan on installing Linux there and would like to have as painless a process of creating XF86Config as possible. Let me start by asking: how are the number of keys on a keyboard counted? Is every single key - even the space bar and the 2 shift keys counted? If so, this one's got 86 keys. The alt key is in the lowest left corner, where one usually finds the ctrl key. The ctrl key is where caps lock usually is - right above the left shift key. Caps lock is in the farthest lower right corner. Escape is on the top left of the integer pad (yes, it does have such a pad on the right side). Etc, etc. Has anyone ever encountered such a keyboard before? Does it conform to any sort of standard, or is it just this mfctr's wild hared idea? Any tips on getting XF86Config to deal with this gem?
Thanks, James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
