On Sunday 10 September 2006 15:07, Guido Pinkernell wrote:
ticalcs-INFO: sending key 0115:
It could very well the one keyboard key which causes this whole bunch of problems. Any ideas or infos on this?
It does indeed *sound* like one of your keys is either stuck or got a drop of cola or something in it and has a short circuit. Ascii 0115 (octal) is '\r', which makes me suspect your RETURN key (but that would be curious because under Linux the RETURN key emits '\n' (octal 0112)). Try removing it, cleaning it out with a damp cotton swap, and let it dry for a while before turning it back on. If you smoke a lot of pot around your keyboard, sometimes a drop of "crud" will land down in between keys, which might be sticky due to the resin. (No joke - it's happened to me.) In my experience, most machines will beep constantly if a key is stuck down at bootup. i've also had it happen, however, that a key isn't constantly stuck, but sticks every so often. Also try using your BIOS setup, just to see if you can move through the menus and such normally. If you can't, the keyboard may very well be the problem. It's a laptop, so if you care to "get crazy" (as the painter Bob Ross would certainly have put it), you can try removing the keyboard and plugging in a USB one just to test it out. However, just plugging in a USB keyboard won't (normally) also deactivate the builtin keyboard, so you'd need to remove the builtin keyboard to be sure. Most laptop keyboards can be removed by using a small flathead screwdriver, or similar, to slide a few little latches out of the way along the edges of the keyboard. Somewhere under the keyboard will be a cable that attaches to the mainboard. That is normally unlatched with a small slider on either side of the connector directly on the mainboard. It can sometimes be tricky to get the keyboard connected again, though, because the latches are so tiny. -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts