laptop keymaps for speakup

[Deedra Waters]

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
> 
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