In message <000701c16a54$75678440$0200000a@windowbox>, "beaker" writes:
>I've been trying to get my wscons screens to work and I'm beginning to
>suspect the Meta or [Alt] key is not working. The keyboard is one of those
>ubiquitous "MS Certified" 104-key types which I seem to recall can cause
>problems in UNIX-like OSes. Is there a way to test whether the key is
>actually working and, if not, what can I do about it ? BTW, I would prefer
>not to install emacs just to test this...
>
Can you get into X?  If so, try xev and see if it notices the 
keypresses.

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