From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 9 14: 1:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C409037BF55 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 14:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org ([209.138.43.228]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29761; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:01:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3968E82D.D88B9408@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:01:33 -0400 From: Patrick Gardella Organization: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross A Lippert Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: capsloc trouble References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross A Lippert wrote: > > On a thinkpad 600X running 4.0 I occassionally hve this problem > where it gets into this caps-lock type state where (although the > capslock isn't pressed) nothing but caps come out when I type. > Pressing shift/capslock restores lowercase but the numbers are still > shifted. > > I tend to bang on random control keys until correct functioning returns. > Has anyone else run into this? What is the way to restore normal > keyboard function? Yes, I have had this problem on -CURRENT systems, -STABLE systems and stock 4.x systems. I have not been able to isolate when it happends, but if I'm in X, I just shift to another console, and then shift back into X. This usually cures it. If someone knows what is causing this, that would be great to have! -- Patrick ---------- Patrick Gardella patrick@freebsd.org The Power to Serve shall not be infringed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message