I just tried. Made absolutely no difference between the restricted
driver and the OSS driver. My video board is a GeForce Go 7600 in a HP
Pavillion dv9000z (AMD Turion 64) laptop.

Now here are two other mild discoveries made:

1. Inside the VM, the functionality of the CAPS key works. If I push it
once, I get uppercase; if I push it again, I get lowercase. However, the
CAPS indicator on my keyboard never changes... It normally does in other
environments where I have used VMware. It should also change state
inside and outside of the VM window dynamically (if one is in CAPS and
the other is not, etc.).

2. The functionality of the CTRL/ALT/SHIFT/CAPS keys disappearing seems
to be directly related to pressing CTRL+ALT+ENTER to lauch full screen
from the VM console. If I use the VM within the window, everything seems
to be fine (with exception that #1 still applies in window mode).
However if I use CTRL+ALT+Enter, all bets are off.

3) If I use the "Fullscreen" button on the toolbar, I retain the ability
to use the keyboard as normal when switching in and out of the VM in
full screen.


There are a couple of mentions of xkbmap and that seems to fix the problem for 
some people. Is there any specific way that is run, or just running it fixes 
the problem? And how are people running it if dialogs and the like explode due 
to the strange keyboard state?

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Shift key (and caps lock) stop working when using VMWare
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