Sounds like you have mouse keys turned on. Try hitting the option five times. You can also turn them off in universal access/mouse and trackpad.
Sorry if you've all ready tried this, but that's sure what it sounds like so I decided to mention it in case you haven't. On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > All, I posted this to another list and must have stumped the > geniuses. First let me explain my setup. I have one of the new > MacBook Pro 15-inch models. I generally use an external keyboard > since I don't always need my machine for portable purposes. The other > day I tried using the MBP's keyboard and and realized that all of the > letters, numbers, spacebar, and caps lock keys do not work. Now > before you say hardware, it is not hardware related. I have a test > account and 9 out of 10 times I can log into this account and > everything works as expected. If I log into my own account first, then > I can't use the MBP's keyboard to log into any other account. Now the > weird part is the external keyboard works perfectly and is not > affected by whatever the hell is going on. I tried an archive and > install with no success, I have booted from another Leopard disk and > it works fine, I even just did the upgrade to 10.5.8, and this had no > affect on my issue. I believe there is some software that is causing > the problem, but I have not located anything that has not already been > there and this is a new issue. If anyone has any thoughts, it would > be appreciated. I only installed an upgrade to Dragon Burn and a > trial of Cocktail, which I removed, but do not believe this is the > issue. I also did install a copy of ABBYY FineReader and I could > certainly remove from my system, but again, I don't think this is the > problem. There is something being loaded when I log into the system > and seems to have an impact system-wide in that I have to login > first. I could easily rebuild the system, but would prefer to avoid > doing this if at all possible or I'm going to have to run out and find > a firewire 800 drive. Migrating all of my data would be such a > painful process since it would take quite a while. :) > > THanks, > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
