Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-12 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 18:27, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:46:29PM +0200, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > > same problem here with ibook G4. If it's a bug or whatever. I just know > > this often happens when I press several key at the same time. > > Has anyone an idea to fix it ? > > I thi

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 16:39, Wolfram Quester 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. > Some time ago I worked quite a bit in OF and there I noticed this > behaviour too, also in MacOSX.

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Wednesday 11 of May 2005 17:39, Wolfram Quester wrote: > Dänzer replied there: > > 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 > > Shi

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi Lee, On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:37:59AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > Anyone else have trouble with their ibook keyboard? Mine suddenly takes to > repeating 222s or some other key in X (but 2 is quite common), and I > just discovered that, with the g key xmodmap'ed to: There was a dis

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I see it every few days on a Powerbook/Titanium IV (on 2.6.10/sid) ... really ^^ > annoying ... The "it" should say: The "repeating keys" issue: And I don't remember having seen it on the console, just on X, IIRC ... But

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:07:44PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:09:04AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:37, Lee Braiden wrote: > > > Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press > > > mode_switch+shift. So, for example, it'll prin

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:46:29PM +0200, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > same problem here with ibook G4. If it's a bug or whatever. I just know > this often happens when I press several key at the same time. > Has anyone an idea to fix it ? I think this is likely a hardware issue. A standard ADB keyboard

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
Le mardi 10 mai 2005 Ã 14:07 +0200, Uwe Steinmann a Ãcrit : > I have seen repeating keys for quite some time both on a pismo and > an ibook G4. I cannot tell if certain keys are more effected than others. > > Uwe > Yep, same problem here with ibook G4. If it's a bug or whatever. I just know th

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread peter plessas
Hi, Yup, my pismo does this once every some weeks. nothing about the other strange behavior though. Peter Uwe Steinmann wrote: I have seen repeating keys for quite some time both on a pismo and an ibook G4. I cannot tell if certain keys are more effected than others. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Uwe Steinmann
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:09:04AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:37, Lee Braiden wrote: > > Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press > > mode_switch+shift. So, for example, it'll print g OK, and shift-g (G), and > > mode_switch+g (??), but most of the ti

Re: flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:37, Lee Braiden wrote: > Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press > mode_switch+shift. So, for example, it'll print g OK, and shift-g (G), and > mode_switch+g (Ä), but most of the time shift+mode_switch+g (which should > be Ä) usually only prints G. O

flakey ibook keyboard

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
Anyone else have trouble with their ibook keyboard? Mine suddenly takes to repeating 222s or some other key in X (but 2 is quite common), and I just discovered that, with the g key xmodmap'ed to: g G gcircumflex Gcircumflex Sometimes it won't recognise the qualifier keys when I press