I got bit by it as well. I reinstalled Leopard and the whole works. It was only a year later that I figured out what it was.
On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Well Barry I'll b damned, that was exactly the issue. Huh, well that > is really curious because it never occurred to me to check this to be > honest since I just didn't make that connection between the usb and > laptop keyboard. Of course I also stumped the Apple folks as > well. :) Funny, I can't even remember when these got turned on and so > it goes to show the simplest things can really get you. Here I was > ready to jump through all sorts of hoops and so thank you very much. > On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
