On 12/30/2004 04:08 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 22:39 -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>>Hi Michael, > > Almost. ;) Oops! That will teach me to be more careful. The sad part is, I think I've done this to your name before. :-( >>(I'm using an iBook G3, running sid, with kernel 2.6.8.) Occasionally >>I can't get the problematic arrow key to switch off, in which case I >>find that switching to a virtual console and then back to X fixes things. > > Maybe it's actually an arrow key in combination with a modifier or the fn > key in those cases? Anyway, the fact that VT switching clears it might > point towards a software problem, unless the keyboard hardware gets > reinitialized at that point. No, just the plain arrow keys -- as Cedric Pradalier mentioned, this often happens in games; also sometimes when I'm scrolling with arrow keys in a text editor. >>An apparently related issue I see is that sometimes, when holding an >>arrow key down, somewhere in the chain from hardware to software some >>keypress events don't get converted properly, so I end up with some >>numeric gibberish like "444444444" inserted somewhere random. > > I've seen that, too. I'm glad it's not just happening to me then! Thanks, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544