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New MessageGCT Keyboard Fix (modified 0 times) BigDog
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Ok I started working on another issue with the GCT and that's the Gateway keyboard that doesn't have a ALT key.

So far I have figured out that the de-ALT'ing is with the physical keypad not a special controller in the keyboard, I took a Siltek 7100 keyboard mainboard and attached a GW keypad and it behaved as a normal altered GW keyboard.

So now I going to take the numerous screws of the keypads out and see if there is a way to make the GW keyboard it behave as a normal Siltek keyboard.


I will be back with details....

02-09-2002 16:41:18

New MessageRE:GCT Keyboard Fix (modified 0 times) pigseye
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Excellent BD! Keep us posted.

Thanks
Pigseye

02-09-2002 21:34:26

New MessageRE:GCT Keyboard Fix (modified 0 times) BigDog
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It doesn't look good, after removing the countless miniture screws from the back of the keypad membrane, I found there is just a thin transparent plastic membrane making up the actual switch pad for the key in which the Siltek one is completely different from the GW one.

I going to spend a little more time and try to trace the contacts and see what I can come up with, I can't understand why the GW keybaord is so much differnet which only would cause a higher price to make a dis-similer keyboard rather than to use the stock Siltek keyboard with a differnet outside case.

02-10-2002 08:32:00

New MessageRE:GCT Keyboard Fix (modified 0 times) VansMan
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May have been discussed somewhere else, but if not....

You can remap the keys under 95/98 by using the KB Map util in the Win95 kernel toys. Using this I was able to map my right ctrl key to an Alt key. (Do not try to install any of the other utils under 98!)


Or on a w2k or XP box you can use the Scancode feature to remap keys in the Registy.

For example to map your Right Shift key to an Alt key create the following entry: (Reboot needed)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"00000409"="KBDUS.DLL"
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,46,00,38,00,38,00,46,00


You can do a web search on "scanmode map" for other key combos if needed.

HTH
-Ed

02-10-2002 11:29:37

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