On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:28 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Anyone knowing a trick how to reset a keyboard with some keystroke, or > whatever, to its default values after it crashed? > > The keyboard here became unusable while running an X/FVWM/GTK+ > session: All keys suddenly became uppercase values when typing. I > started this X session from a console with > startx -- -dpi 82 > /tmp/xlog-`date +%y-%m-%d-%H:%M` 2>&1 > > Links I clicked in Firefox with the left mouse-button suddenly openend > in a new browser window instead of opening the new page in the current > one. > > Pressing Caps Lock, ^D, whatever: nothing helped until I logged out > from X and got back to the console from where I started the previous > X: But even there everything I typed became uppercase: In this > situatian it's even impossible to shut down the machine from the > command line. > > What helped in the end, I believe, was pressing something like > <fn>-Shift to get back to a usable keyboard. > > Anyone knowing how to change such a situation back to normal, without > trial-and-error?
I'm afraid there's none. Sometimes, a key gets 'stuck', I don't know if this is a hardware or software issue. The trick is to find the key and press it again. Sounds like in your case it may have been fn-Shift (i.e. right Shift), which would be particularly tricky. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
