-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > I suspect the keyboard has been contaminated, possibly by a soft drink > > I won't be responsible, but I've heard, and did it just once 15 years ago, > that the top rack in the dishwasher is safe. i would first try checking connectors and cables before attempting to clean. ie, remove and reinsert all connectors. keyboard keys are in an x - y map. being that all keys not working are in same row, this would tend to indicate that problem is common to this one row. being that there is a time passage, this tends to indicate that there is something no making contact when cold and makes after heat up and expansion. look closely to see if there may be a bad solder connection that traces from 'a -> enter' keys on keyboard circuit board. trace connection thru to main board and follow trace to matrix ic. hth. peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJRJLn+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAlusAKDP2EoicnbJaILI4PUB15qxzfzlowCgstVe iXppiIvj2U9xyh3lT0PBWsY= =tYPo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
