Michael Dänzer wrote: > Sometimes, a key gets 'stuck', I don't know if this is a hardware or > software issue. The trick is to find the key and press it again. > Sounds like in your case it may have been fn-Shift (i.e. right > Shift), which would be particularly tricky.
Hi Michael, Do you know any more details about this, by any chance? I sometimes have this problem under X, but only with the arrow keys. (I'm using an iBook G3, running sid, with kernel 2.6.8.) Occasionally I can't get the problematic arrow key to switch off, in which case I find that switching to a virtual console and then back to X fixes things. An apparently related issue I see is that sometimes, when holding an arrow key down, somewhere in the chain from hardware to software some keypress events don't get converted properly, so I end up with some numeric gibberish like "444444444" inserted somewhere random. It's completely unreproducible, unfortunately. I'm not certain, but this may have started happening when I switched from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
