From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 28 15:19:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C6137B40B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TMA-1.brad-x.com ([64.228.80.123]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010928221948.WRDW25005.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@TMA-1.brad-x.com> for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:19:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.brad-x.com [127.0.0.1]) by TMA-1.brad-x.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB017B146 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:20:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:20:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Brad Laue To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Inspiron 8100 + keyboard failure Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I quite commonly use my laptop off utility power, and commonly am around 40% battery remaining when I still need to get things done; as such I've noticed a couple of things that happen in this extreme. This only happens off utility power, and it debilitates the system. Keypresses will not return their usual keymappings, instead returning garbled characters (large numbers of them, one press of the 'r' key filled my screen with every ASCII character I could think of). This problem also activates control keys, causing 'r' to generate random ctrl+key or fn+key sequences. A reboot does not help, as the problem survives system reset. The problem does not occur when Windows 2000 SP2 is running on the same system. Any similar experiences? Brad // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message