Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Reeves [SMTP:chris.reeves@iname.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:07 PM
Tim Duggan wrote:
Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Chris Reeves [SMTP:chris.reeves@iname.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:27 PM
The keyboard is a Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro. It's not IR, but
with
radio instead, and it has an adapter from PS/2 to AT to go in the back of the PC. I'm running SuSE 6.1, kernel 2.2.5, XFree86 3.3.3.1-20.
Now on to the problem(s): ---- When using the cursor keys to navigate through a document, etc., I get spurious numbers popping up at seemingly random intervals.
Say I was holding down the left cursor arrow to move to the start of a line (I could use home, but then I wouldn't have an example...). As the cursor is moving to the left a number 4 will often appear on the screen. If I move right I get a 6, up gives an 8, and down a 2. These numbers only appear when I'm pressing the cursor keys. I don't even have to keep my finger on
works the
key. Even
a single left arrow key press (for example) will produce a 4, instead of moving the cursor left. Sometimes I can go the whole line without a 4 appearing, and other times I'll get a 4 appearing every few characters. <snip>
How many keys on the keyboard? Are these the cursor keys on the numeric keypad? It sounds as if the signal for NumLock is being sent randomly. If so, it might also cause home, end, PgUp and PgDn to send a 7, 1, 9 or 3 intermittently (depending on the mapping), does it do this?
Thanks for your reply Tim.
It is a 105 key keyboard with an extra (normal, hard-type) Logitech key, and 12 soft-touch type keys. The keyboard is set up as: XkbModel "pc104" in XF86Config. Could this be a possible cause?
The Home, End, etc. keys also produce those numbers, I have just found > out. I am *not* using the numeric keypad for this. This is happening with the 'real' cursor/navigation ke4ys (that 4 appeared as I moved left to correct a spelling mistake).
Log into an available console and open a text editor, do a little typing being sure to use the problem keys. This will determine if it is a problem with X or between the keyboard and machine. If it still acts odd, try booting to another OS (got a dos floppy?) and run a similiar test. Then, if you can, try the same on different machines (with and without the PS/2 - AT adapter if you can). Try it in different locations (this is to determine if there is some kind of ambient interference where you are). Take a look around for things that might cause interference, things like cordless phones, cellular, even your monitor should be suspect. If it continues to do this in every case then there is only one thing left, it's a flakey keyboard and probably needs to be replaced.
That's about all I can think of.
Tim
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