[542] in OS/2_Discussion
comment -- Question for your FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sushil@ecn.purdue.edu)
Sat May 13 14:11:34 1995
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 18:11:23 GMT
From: sushil@ecn.purdue.edu
To: os2www@MIT.EDU
I thought you may want this in your FAQ:
sushil@ecn.purdue.edu (Sushil Kambampati) wrote:
|> I've scanned the FAQs and scoured the net, but I haven't found this
|> problem. So here it is:
|> I run WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) and Paradox 4.0 (DOS) and if I've used
|> the app once and then minimize/hide it, and go back to it later,
|> often, not always, the keyboard doesn't cause anything to happen.
|> After the requisite 15 keystrokes, it beeps, and then it even beeps
|> on <Alt> or <Ctrl>. I can <Alt-Esc> or <Ctrl-Esc> to get back to the
|> WPS, but the app is OTL and it ain't coming back. The mouse, however,
|> does work. It's just the keyboard that is hosed.
I received one e-mail response, and I caught two posts on this newsgroup.
Jos Backus (jos@oce.nl) and the e-mailer wrote expressing long
familiarity with this problem, but with different apps, pcAnywhere and
Geos20. Hugh Campbell (at559@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote that he had
occasional incidents of this lockup. None of them had any real fix,
but some helpful suggestions.
Diagnosis
It is not a hardware problem since Jos had tried a variety
of silica w/o success. Hugh suggested the problem is inherent
to WordPerfect, since he'd seen it pre-OS/2. I'm relieved to think
it is not hardware, but I must discount the WP angle because I've
also experienced this with Paradox. So we don't really know what the
problem is, although we can guess what OS/2 is (not) doing.
So here are some possible fixes:
Jon: Toggling the 'Special Needs' item in the Keyboard notebook
seems to help according to some (resets the keyboard), just like
replugging the keyboard in (but this could potentially fry your hardware,
so I would advise against this
Private e-mailer: I had the same problem w/Geos20, a
Dos Program I run at times. Though I have to run it at full screen.
I run Warp @800x600 and ran Geos at the same res. With results
similar to yours. Then I tried Geos @ 640x480 which allows me to
jump back and forth numerous times from Warp to Geos w/o the
dreaded dead keyboard syndrome (sometimes it would take my mouse, too).
I'll give these a try, although I'm starting to resign myself to living
with it (I already have for many months now).
-----
submitted by 'sushil@ecn.purdue.edu' on 128.46.141.197 (teal.ecn.purdue.edu)
Email sent via the WWW comment gateway at www.mit.edu:8001.
Warning: the sender's name and address may be forged.
