keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer 
Hi, I've been having some keyboard problems on a newly installed hamm
system.

Often when typing some characters are repeated twice as in the subject
heading. Also sometime the shift key will act as if it's held down even
though it is physically up.

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this?

thanks in advance
-Dano

(the subject problems were actually completely accidental.)
(the other typos were just typos)

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer 
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:

 Hi there Daniel,
   How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new
 keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I
 often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out.
   Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system.
   BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i
 tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem.
This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard
works fine there.  I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need
to be tweaked?  But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no
need.  And I don't know where to look for such things.

-Dano

Re: keboaard prooblems :)

1999-02-24 Thread John Stevenson 
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package
(which used the keyboard leds to indicate events).  This stoped
my laptop keyboard working.

If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the
problem.

John.

Daniel J. Brosemer wrote:
 
 On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
 
  Hi there Daniel,
How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new
  keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I
  often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out.
Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system.
BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i
  tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps.
 
 Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem.
 This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard
 works fine there.  I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need
 to be tweaked?  But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no
 need.  And I don't know where to look for such things.
 
 -Dano
 
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