On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 22:39 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 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,
Almost. ;) > I sometimes have this problem under X, but only with the arrow keys. I think it's just most likely to happen with them, maybe because one tends to use them differently than other 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. Maybe it's actually an arrow key in combination with a modifier or the fn key in those cases? Anyway, the fact that VT switching clears it might point towards a software problem, unless the keyboard hardware gets reinitialized at that point. > 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. I've seen that, too. > 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. I'm pretty sure it used to happen for me with 2.4 as well. If anything, it used to be worse, but I don't remember whether it became better when going from 2.4 to 2.6 or at what point. The only other idea I seem to remember is that it could have been introduced when the 2.4 kernel switched to the new input layer for PowerMacs, in which case it could be a bug in there. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
