Fedora :: F12 Left Shift Key Troubles / Fix This?
Jan 6, 2010
Since F12 I've big troubles with my left shift key.
I've Fedora running on 3 hosts. 2 desktops and 1 laptop. Only on one of the desktops I've these troubles.
If I press the left shift key sometimes shift gets locked. If it's locked, no key can unlock it. Not the left, not the right shift, nor any other key... and I tried them all meanwhile;-)
It's a real shift lock, not a caps lock. After a (random?) time it releases itself without any user interaction. Releasetime varies between 1 and many seconds.
So, only waiting helps. I already followed the wiki entries for debugging keyboard (input-dev) issues. Watching the output of evtest shows exactly the same output for the usual case and the lock case. They both look like this... code...
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Jan 19, 2011
I've been having a strange problem with my keyboard lately. certain characters aren't capitalized when I hold the left shift. Right shift covers these buttons, but then ignores some itself.I know that it used to be fine, as I set a password on my router with a capital letter which then did not work, and in my AWN terminal, I would use ctrl+shift+v to paste in lines of code.
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit, on a Compaq Altec Lansing.For a demonstartion, here is the alphabet as typed holding the shift keys.
Left Shift
ABcDEFGHIJKLmNOPQRSTUvWxYz
Right Shift
ABCDeFGHiJKLMNopqrSTuVwXYZ
Both Shifts
A B ce D ce F G H ,i J K L mu N .o /p zq vr S T mu vr xw xw Y zq
Also, I noticed now that I cannot use the right shift with the Left arrow key to highlight text...
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May 3, 2011
I have been enjoying 11.04, upgraded from 10.10, for the past few days without any problems. Today my left shift button stopped working, or at least changed its behavior. When I run xev, I get 'KeyRelease event, serial 39, synthetic NO, window 0x3c00001,root 0x15a, subw 0x3c00002, time 12813775, (27,34), root94,82),state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False'
I am using the usa keyboard layout and have not had any problems prior to the 11.04 upgrade. I have also tried creating a new user and changing to ubuntu classic. The problem with the left shift key persists through all of these changes.
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I did a /sbin/lspci
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
I did $rpm -q b43-fwcutter
b43-fwcutter-011-3.fc9.i386
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HDD partitioned for novice - everything in one partition, in one folder /.
/dev/sda3117290636 38456100 72876432 35% /
tmpfs 1037460 10374600% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240 852 93889% /dev
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Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.8 GB, 250808893440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30492 cylinders
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You will not believe that. Such crazzy thing! When I first press the Shift key (in KDE session), the Numbers Lock function (LED) turn off. Then I have to press NumLock key twice to turn it on. First press has no effect. Second turn it on.
And another strange thing. I can disable this strange efect, if I manually turn NumLock off an then on.
I thing, I will rename Fedora to Pandora. Because there is more that little strange things. About 12 I counted. But there is no time and place to write all 12. Maybe another day.
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Description of Problem:There is another thread that discussed this same problem that I'm having: However that thread is so old that the suggestions in it no longer work in Ubuntu 10.04 and for whatever reason I can not make a reply to that thread.As in the above thread, I've tried other input devices and rebooting the computer and using other USB ports, and my mouse still intermittently double left clicks randomly at times when I've only clicked the left mouse button once and at times and places when it should only produce a single click such as when selecting a drop down menu.
Has any one else had this problem, and does any one have any idea how to fix it or to trouble shoot this a bit more? Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide to further clarify or troubleshoot this issue.
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