Thanks for the feedback, Stephan. More inline Am Sonntag, 10. September 2006 15:29 schrieb stephan beal:
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.
Alright. I seem to be on the right track. That´s what I needed. Thanks.
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.)
Well I don´t smoke at all. No pot, cup or bottle. I prefer the latter for beer. The first for soup, which indeed could have dropped onto the keyboard at some time. Beer too, of course. And, come to think of it, lot of other things as well.
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.
Well that´s another problem. Since the keyboard does not work properly during startup it does not allow Alt+F2 to start the bios setup. I put all my hope into the big cleaning session. Thanks for the advice! Guido