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Re: Keyboard weirdness. Anyone familiar with this behavior?

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From: Christopher R. Barry
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00
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Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com> writes:

> Go to the FEP. SCAN iNNN-tests.flod (NNN is the version you have in
> your FEP dir).  Then you have several commands to test your memory.
> Test Main Memory . Etc. This should help to locate the memory
> problem.

I scanned FEP0:>I328-test.flod.24 and ran 3 of the 4 tests (didn't run
the single location test) and no errors were signalled. For Test Main
Memory I did both the default Checkerboard pattern and the (very
time-consuming) Walking-Bit pattern. It's nice that the keyboard
happens to be working decent right now for the testing. It must be the
monitor that is screwed.... The previous owner said he mostly ran it
on a remote machine via X using the remote machine's keyboard and
mouse.

So I've got lots of printed documentation and if the thing works long
enough so that I am able to figure out how to configure it on my site
to boot with the monitor powered off and automatically start the
X-server and networking stuff then I should be fine.

If anyone has got a working monitor they could part with, I'm
definitely interested (_Especially_ if I can't get the X stuff
working. I'd love to be able to use this cool Symbolic's keyboard
anyways....)

I'll follow up in a few days I guess.

Thanks,
Christopher
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