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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: vp/ix bug in ISC 2.0.2 Unix
Message-ID: <176@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 05:08:22 GMT
References: <139@vidiot.UUCP> <1403@chansw.UUCP> <187@zds-ux.UUCP>
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In article <187@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
<In article <1403@chansw.UUCP> chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) writes:
<>I have seen the keyboard SHIFT LOCK get out out sync with the SHIFT LOCK
<>light on; the way that I cure this is to press both SHIFT keys and releasing
<>both simultaneously.  Give it a shot.
<
<Actually, what must be happening is the keyboard controller misses one of
<the "up" codes from one of the shift keys, and therefore it thinks the key
<is still down.  The fix you suggest should work, but if it is happening often
<enough to be annoying, there is probably something wrong.  I think that only
<the keyboard controller (on system board) gets these codes normally, so a
<failure would have to be firmware in the controller of hardware.  I see this
<phenomenon, but not more than one per month frequency.

The holding down both SHIFT keys and then releasing them resets the flag.
It doesn't stop if from occuring.  It happens every time I run vp/ix.  Today
it has even screwed me up royally while running Lotus.

BTW, the problem doesn't happen because I had down the SHIFT key at it didn't
release, it goes into SHIFT all by itself.  The problem doesn't occur during
UNIX, ever.  It only occurs during vp/ix and needs to be fixed...PERIOD.
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