Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 22:54:47 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no> To: by <free7by@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange keyboard mistake Message-ID: <52CB2627.1000003@bitfrost.no> In-Reply-To: <D8FDBCA7-8B7F-41DB-A526-924F45D7EA51@yahoo.com> References: <D8FDBCA7-8B7F-41DB-A526-924F45D7EA51@yahoo.com>
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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
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