Wow, yeah, I was really considering this, but Barry pointed out mouse keys and thankfully it was that simple. I don't know why this didn't occur to me, but well this is really my first notebook since all my previous Macs have ben desktops. So, I learned something new. :) On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:36 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
> > Try renameing your Library folder to Library.save and see if that > solves the issue. Library has your preference settings, your Mail > items and lots of other sutff. Depending on your patience and how much > your system goes nuts, you could either duplicate the Library and then > start taking out folders or you could work the other way around. I > would suggest logging in / out after any changes to the folder though. > > Jon > > On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:00 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
