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From: schaerer@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Another bizarre keyboard problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.192343.5613@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch>
Date: 13 Aug 90 19:23:43 GMT
References: <1990Jun26.193915.18901@calgary.uucp> <23382@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <4614@adobe.UUCP> <1990Aug4.110706.28526@lth.se>
Reply-To: Daniel Schaerer <schaerer@ifi.unizh.ch>
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
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[David Gelphman and Roland Mansson write that their Mac II's often don't
recognize the keyboard at startup. Roland writes that resetting the ADB bus
helps.] [Sorry I'm late with my followup, our mail/news system was down.]

Please say more about your environment, maybe we can reconstruct this puzzle.
I have the same annoying problem on a Mac II, but, as far as I can remember,
*only since I installed System 6.0.5*. I haven't tried to reinstall 6.0.4 yet.

I use SilverLining 5.2, Tops 2.1, Suitcase II 1.2.6, ATM 1.01, and some more
stuff. The problem remained when I removed everything except Suitcase and Tops.

Resetting the ADB bus with a tool ADBProbe is not practical for me, because
I need the keyboard for entering a password before I can do anything else.

Thanks for any ideas.

Daniel Schaerer, University of Zurich/Switzerland
schaerer@ifi.unizh.ch