[plug] Keyboard Problems

[Timothy White]

Timothy White wrote:

> I've just upgraded from a 2.6.6 kernel to a 2.6.10 kernel.
> Every now and then my keyboard does funny things that it didn't do
> before.
> It appears to be switching capslock (or locking shift down) on even
> though it's off and I can't turn it off. The only way I've found its to
> "Ctrl Alt F1" and then "Shift Caps-Lock" and then hit caps lock a few
> times until what I type corresponds to what the Caps LED says. Until I
> do this I can't get back into X as the Capital of F7 isn't F7. Also it
> sometimes 'locks' enter down until I "Ctrl-C"
> I was thinking this may be a code page related thing.

It also just locked the delete key down while I was writing an email.
For some reason Thunderbird didn't delete the signature though?

>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Tim

p.s. My signature is missing as it just got deleted by the delete key being 'locked' down :(

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