On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:21:34AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running Wheezy - kde plasma > > Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI) > > I've been using the keyboard for a couple of years. > > All equipment has been in use a good while. > > I've recently started having a problem where the capslock comes on > (seemingly randomly) but not the led that indicates its on. > > I'll be typing and suddenly I'm in caps and have to turn caps lock on > (led comes on) to get back to lowercase. > > Even that doesn't really work, since numbers stay upper case to what > ever symbols are the upper case for each (sometimes).
Upper case numbers? > > I'm not sure if its related to debian though it did seem to start > following a major update of pkgs. (No I didn't keep a list). I would say no. > > The reason I say I'm not sure is that once it starts, even if I switch > to windows 7 host through the KVM, its still stuck on caps. Right there is your evidence that it's not Debian-related. I had a similar problem (cheap keyboard). Sometimes logging out of X would return caps/lowercase back to normal. In any case, replacing the keyboard completely resolved the issue. I'd say you just have an old, tired keyboard. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
