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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kbdio problem (again)
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:30:16 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <a952n5.s85.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>
> I had posted about this a while back, but I'm still being plagued by this
> problem.
>
> My keyboard keeps generating erroneous control characters every so often.
> The behavior is so odd, and so erratic, that it's very difficult to
> pinpoint the cause.
You've either got ghosts or a bad keyboard. I'd suspect the
second as you havn't heard any other noises at night :)
You could try taking the keyboard apart and look for the
crystalized sugar coating left over from the coffee that
got spilt on it (maybe), or something else may become obvious
when it's in bits (like: oops, I can't get it back together :)
See if you can borrow another keyboard from somewhere to "prove"
this.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !