> 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