Yeah, I see it, too. On 840AV, third time is the charm. Fast or slow.
It looks like I was deceiving myself about that holding the keys down
longer.


On Sun, 30 May 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> 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...