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problem with keyboard on freedos 1.1 (Users)

posted by bretjohn  , Rio Rancho, NM, 17.12.2014, 17:00

A couple of suggestions on things to try. If the laptop has a mouse touch-pad (usually located directly below the keyboard), your problem could be related to accidentally touching the mouse pad with you palms. This is unlikely unless you have some appropriate mouse drivers loaded, though. On my machines, I have mouse drivers loaded that can cause this kind of grief for me on laptops, but I am able to disable/ignore the mouse pad when I need/want to.

You could also try installing a keyboard driver (KEYB) and see if that fixes the problem. I would suggest trying Microsoft's KEYB program first (from DOS 6 or 7), not any of the "clones", like those from FreeDOS. The KEYB clones don't work the same way MS-KEYB does, and usually don't help with problems like this.

Complete thread:

• problem with keyboard on freedos 1.1 - iw2evk, 16.12.2014, 13:45
  • problem with keyboard on freedos 1.1 - bretjohn, 17.12.2014, 17:00