Re: [h-e-w] no C-spc

[Ryan Krauss]

One interesting data point: with the exact same hardware and BIOS, I
have no problems in Linux.  I first noticed this problem after I tried
to install GNUServe myself.  Any thoughts on how I might not have
completely uninstalled GNUServe or why the C-SPC problem would be only
in Windows?

Thanks again,

Ryan

On 1/23/07, Francis Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From:
> > address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > rg] On Behalf Of David Vanderschel
> > Sent: Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:58 am
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [h-e-w] no C-spc
> >
> > On Monday, January 22, "Ryan Krauss" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >I am having trouble with my emacs install.  I cannot use
> > C-spc to set
> > >the mark.  ...
> >
> > I have seen similar symptoms which were specific to the
> > hardware.  In such cases, I assume the problem is in the
> > keyboard itself or the BIOS.  Since C-space does not mean
> > anything to Windows, it would not be surprising if machines
> > that don't see it made it into the wild.  (I have a few other
> > relatively obscure key-combinations which don't come through.)
>
> I would suspect the BIOS.  I had a Dell desktop machine a few years ago that
> did not respond to Ctrl-Meta-L.  I found a BIOS update on the Dell web site,
> installed it and that fixed the problem.  I now have the same problem on my
> Acer notebook, which I hope I will be able to fix in the same way although I
> haven't tried yet.  These problems tend to show up only in Emacs because
> most applications don't use so many obscure key combinations.
>
> Francis