From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 6 21:53:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86C2DDFF for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta05.bitpro.no (mta05.bitpro.no [92.42.64.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414C21E0A for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lockless.no (mail.lockless.no [46.29.221.38]) by mta05.bitpro.no (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 639A317FC62; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:53:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lockless.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30DFB8F22A5; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:54:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.6.4 (20090625) (Debian) at lockless.no Received: from mail.lockless.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.lockless.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NZhHYCk58WZP; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:54:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) by mail.lockless.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A6818F2166; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:54:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52CB2627.1000003@bitfrost.no> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:54:47 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky Organization: Bitfrost A/S User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: by , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Strange keyboard mistake References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:53:39 -0000 On 01/03/14 05:00, by wrote: > Hi, > I got a very strange problem. > I got another keyboard for my laptop, everything goes well for days, but today, for some reasons when in csh environment, i got my new keyboard off my laptop's USB port, and just a few minutes later, after i put it back, keyboard got a mistake. > For example, when i type 'b', it became a "smile face", and other keys became other strange symbols too! > What is the most strange is that my original keyboard on my laptop became the same! > I got no idea how to do, so i hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot, after reboot, everything became normal. > Does anyone got any ideas about this strange behavior? Or if i do not want to reboot, what should i do when i encounter this situation again. > By the way, i use FreeBSD 8.4 RELEASE and my new keyboard is Logitech K310. > Thanks. > ----by Hi, Are you sure you didn't press any LOCK keys, like NUMLOCK, CAPSLOCK or SCROLL LOCK when this happened? "usbdump -i usbusX -f Y -vvv -s 65536" will dump the actual traffic towards the USB device. Maybe your USB keyboard has some "bugs" in it. --HPS