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m56-129-24 keyboard badly broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Mon Sep 8 12:56:16 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 12:55:34 EDT
The keyboard on the ss4 m56-129-24 is broken. The arrow keys
don't work and neither does the F1 key. I'd suspect the cable, since
the machine also drops into the PROM frequently, but "go" returns just
fine to the OS. Interestingly, enough people knew this ("the machine
crashes") that no one was logged in to it when there was a four-deep
queue of people waiting for machines.
A little experimenting makes the cable (or maybe the interface
on the board) suspect: xev sees the keys being pressed, but they're
getting the wrong keysyms: F1 sends "Help" instead of "F1", and the
arrow keys send keysym 0, "NoSymbol" instead of "Up" "Down" "Left" and
"Right".
- Nathan
