[14800] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0J: keys are dead
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Nov 4 13:20:55 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:20:50 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-77
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.0J
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Use this Sun computer.
What's wrong:
Large numbers of keys are dead. Fortunately, the ASCII
printable keys seem to all be working, but lots of others
are gone. (Loss of Meta, Tab, and Escape keys makes a
computer tricky to use.)
I honestly have no idea if this is a hardware or software
problem. I've had this happen to me before, on at least one
other Sun.
Let's see which keys don't work:
Stop
Props
Front (sun left-hand keypad)
Open
Find
Tab
Esc
Caps Lock
Alt
both Diamond keys
Alt Graph
With this many keys missing, I suspect a software problem
more than a hardware one. I don't see any obvious physical
damage to the keyboard. Still, I don't know. Should this
be sent to hotline instead?
What should have happened:
The keys should have worked.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The keyboard is a Type 5c.
Hmm. Stop-a doesn't work, either.
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
