Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!ames!mailrus!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!ron From: RON@PSUVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: z-183 keyboard Message-ID: <52152RON@PSUVM> Date: 8 Sep 88 01:22:42 GMT Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center Lines: 17 I am using Minix 1.2 on a Z-183 laptop but am having some problems with the keyboard. Once in a while it gets confused and thinks the shift key is press (not the cap lock) and you get ! instead of 1, | instead of \ and : instead of ; Pressing the shift key sometimes (but not always) clears this up. My guess is maybe I'm losing some interupts (getting the one when shift is pressed but missing the one when it is released) The bigger problem is that my arrow keys don't work. When in MINED if I press the down arrow it sometimes works but none of the others do. I get 2 digit numbers or ]; and that sort of thing. The Z-183 has an abbreviated keyboard and it does some wierd things to get around this. Has anyone else had these problems with a zenith laptop and if so where do i start looking to fix it? thanks Ron McCarty Penn State Erie Erie PA 16563