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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Self-mutilating keyboard map---what's going on?
Message-ID: <765@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:11:26 GMT
References: <1081@diemen.cc.utas.oz>
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In article <1081@diemen.cc.utas.oz> ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian) writes:

>It has just happened again! My schizophrenic keyboard map has just flipped
>from 'International' to 'Domestic', but the keyboard CDEV still shows it
>set at 'International'. As a result, some keys (e.g., the key pad, 'b', 'n',
>spacebar, and a bunch of others down around the bottom row) take on whole
>new personas. This happens infrequently and does not seem to follow any
>particular pattern (maybe only when the moon is full, or perhaps at times
>of intense solar activity?). In the past year, I've been hit about 10 times.
>It does not seem to be fatal---reinstallation of the system from floppy
>cures the problem. Until the next time.

>Can anybody suggest what might be happening? Has anyone experienced this
>before? I am running under 6.0.2 on a Mac Plus. INITS = standard Apple +
>init 2.0 + hierDA 0.9984 + Disktop 3.0.4 + SFScrollInit + SUM Shield II + 
>SuperClock 3.5. CDEVS = standard Apple + matching ones for the INITs just 
>listed.

"No" to the first question, but "yes" to the second.  This has happened
to me as well, ever since I've had a Mac+, with every system from 4.3
(or maybe even 3.2) to 6.0.3.  Every now and then, when I turn it on, it
comes up with what looks like the keyboard map for the old keyboard (the
one with no keypad): each letter key on the bottom row behaves like the
key to its left (I cant remember what 'z' becomes), return becomes
backquote, etc.  Rebooting cures the problem.  I have a bunch of INITs
as well, but their intersection with yours is just the standard Apple
INITs.

I havent seen it happen on a MacII though, so there's one possible fix :-).

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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