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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: System V/AT v2.4 Impressions and Bug Report
Summary: Keyboard
Message-ID: <1518@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 19:28:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ssc.1518
References: <319@sdti.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <319@sdti.UUCP>, mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young) writes:
> 
> I haven't seen much activity here of late.  Has anyone installed the
> 2.4 upgrade to System V/AT?  Here are my impressions of it along with
> a few bug reports:
> ...
 
> 4.  Sometimes the keyboard locks up (scroll lock light on) and there
>     doesn't seem to be a way to free it up short of reset.  Even Ctrl-Alt-Del
>     stops working.  It's happened to me three times in four days, usually when
>     I've accidentally hit more than one key at a time while using CTRL-S
>     and CTRL-Q.  This never happened under 2.3, even though I wasn't
>     any better a typist back then!

The quick fix is to unplug the keyboard, because the microcontroller in the
keyboard is lost.  The long term fix is to get a keyboard with a faster
microcontroller.  The symptom I had was the the keyboard would lock up
under version 2.3 when I did flow control or hit the shift lock or num lock
too fast.  That problem went away with 2.4 but then the keyboard would
lock up when a string of backspaces was typed.  That was so irritating that
I bought another keyboard (My third).  This one ( a Maxiswitch) seem to
work.


Mark Zenier	uunet!pilchuck!ssc!markz		
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