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Re: flakey ibook keyboard



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 22222222222s 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 discussion of this some time ago. The subject of the mail
starting the related thread was "Keyboard locked to uppercase". Michel
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
> Shift), which would be particularly tricky.

It seems that many people see this issue with different adb-devices.
Some time ago I worked quite a bit in OF and there I noticed this
behaviour too, also in MacOSX. This makes me believe it is some kind of
"design failure". I get it quite seldom and randomly.


With best regards,

Wolfi

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