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From: morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: input problem to X11 on a Sun....
Keywords: Sun3/50, uppercase characters
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Date: 29 Aug 90 17:20:28 GMT
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Reply-To: morreale@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
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A new strange problem has cropped up on  *one* of the Sun3/50's 
that use X11 here.  The user will be typing away and suddenly, all
the characters appear (in xterms) in uppercase.  Additionally the 
mouse buttons are ignored everywhere on the root window.  Note also that
*only* the characters [A-Z] appear in a/any window (whichever has focus,
yes, we can move the pointer though button clicks are ignored...).  None 
of the other ASCII characters  (./><&$, etc...) appear in the windows.

To add another kink, this just started after we had a general memory
upgrade to the 3/50's.  Went from 4 to 8Mbytes with third party 
memory.  Note again that *none* of the other 3/50's are experiencing
this problem.

This isn't an xmodmap problem, the user isn't using xmodmap at all.

If I had to take a guess, I'd bet that the server is having some kind of
problem translating the keysyms that the keyboard and mouse is producing.

Note that we have 25 or so Sun3/50's and this problem appears on *one*.
(consistently, this is the third time this week)  If we softboot the
system, the problem goes away (til it happens again ;-).

Perhaps a broken keyboard?  Has anybody seen this before?  We're
clueless.

datum:   X11, fix-14, no local mods, SunOS 4.0.3c,  Sun3/50


Thanks,
-PWM
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