Hello, after a start of BRLTTY, no matter whether after a reboot or during a normal user session, there is a chance that some keys are "pinned". Every letter becomes a key stroke. Most often, all letters are capitalized, as if shift would be pressed the whole time. This happens even so my caps_lock is deactivated (replaced through escape in the key map). In the problematic situation, I can neither change to another tty nor can I get rid of the activated caps_lock. I can restart BRLTTY, because my shell corrects capitalized commands to lower-case and I have an alias to stop BRLTTY, but the issue remains. I have to restart the machine. This behavior occurs from time to time when switching the language, where I currently have to restart BRLTTY to load an alternate configuration.
Less often, I have similar problems after a system boot up. Every key press seems to be accompanied by a press of the control key, at least getty seems to behave like this. Changing to another tty is again not possible. In this case the reboot is the only solution. Killing BRLTTY via ssh and restarting it didn't work in v4.5, but I would need to confirm that. In very rare cases, I also cannot log in because all numbers are replaced by their equivalent (when the shift key is pressed). I see no way how I could I reproduce this problem reliably, but I know that this problem only occurs when the laptop key table is loaded. Since this problem occurs randomly, I am not sure how to produce useful debugging information. I can only tell that I have the problem with the version 5.1 and with 4.5. I at least believe that the behavior is less often in version 4.5, but this information might be misleading, because this version runs on another machine and things might be diffrent there. Can I somehow provide more useful information so that this bug could be fixed? Thank you in advance Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?de-0 Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionary databases - http://www.freedict.org _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
