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John Hansen wrote: > I have an elderly Dell Latitude CPx 500 laptop which works well with Kubuntu > except for the fact it needs to use an external keyboard as some of the keys > on its own keyboard are damaged or nonoperational.I believe this is a known > problem with this model. However before spending £65+ on a repair by our > local computer shop I wonder if there is something I can do with a > screwdriver > to rectify the keys. If any of you have a solution I would be glad to learn > about it. > > > John > You could try looking on eBay for the same model of notebook. For instance doing a quick search found this: *http://tinyurl.com/5x3dnl *Doing a search for latitude cpx keyboard found a few others too (albeit most of them were US layout).* *I wouldn't think spending £65 on such an old laptop would be economical really. I presume it's about a P3 733Mhz or something along those lines? You could probably buy a similar spec laptop for around £65 anyway. You might want to try popping the keyboard off and checking the connections, but I'm not sure if it would help at all? Rob ** -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html