Subject: Re: keyboard problem or 1.4 problem
To: Shigeki Uno <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/30/1999 21:46:21
Shigeki Uno wrote:
> From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
> Subject: Re: keyboard problem or 1.4 problem
> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:00:00 -0500 (CDT)
>
> > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Guy Santiglia wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Has anyone else had any problems with the keyboard getting stuck
> > > in caps mode? Sometimes mine gets stuck and I can't change it.
> > > I have a hell of a time entering commands when this happens.
> > >
> > > I can't even 'REBOOT' I just change windows and hit keys until it
> > > goes back to lower case mode.
> >
> > Yeah. It seems like the caps lock key has to be held down a little
> > longer to unset than to set, the exact timing being fairly critical.
>
> I found this bug(?) in 1.4_BETA-19990423(?) snapshot version and unfortuna-
> tely it's still in 1.4. :-(
> As far as I'm concerned, It goes back to lower case mode by pushing
> "caps lock" key 3 times...
on what kind of machine is this being seen? i can't reproduce this one,
so it's kinda hard to tell whether or not it's in the keyboard driver
(quite possible), or in the ADB hardware interface...
later.
colin