3 Nov
2006
3 Nov
'06
9:38 a.m.
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:52 +0100, David Causse wrote:
Hi,
I plan to make live music with a computer. My problem is I want to
control the PC with the PC keyboard. Freewheeling permits to control
with the PC keyboard.
My keyboard have some annoying limitations for example I can press at
the same time the letters 'azer', 'qsdf', 'uiop' but I am unable
to
press 'rtyu' at the same time, nothing is printed. I guess it is due to
some limitations in its design. I'm afraid it's a hardware issue and I
won't find an easy workaround. I'm also afraid that this special use of
a keyboard is not the mind of manufacturers...
it is in fact a hardware problem. AFAIK, it is common in some form to
every keyboard ever made, although the precise impossible combinations
vary when you compare things like a Sun keyboard to a standard PC one.
its caused by the "matrix" below the keys - its like a bus system in
which several keys share the same bus. if one of them is using the bus,
the others can't.
--p