[SPARCbook] keyboard keystroke loss?

[Douglas K Landau]

Well then we've got them [kbd problems] of all types, because one of 
my 3GXs loses keystrokes, more some days than others, sometimes to 
the point of rendering the machine unusable and sometimes not at all.

But, it NEVER does it while in the OBP.  In fact, Pause-A never gets
lost, even when all other keys have appeared to die sporadically.

So it's not hardware.  I think that it has to do with the CDE login screen 
but am not sure.

However, there is a common denominator.  A failing pointer thingy.

dl


> Another thing I've noticed about both my Sparcbook 3's (GX and GS) is that
> they both lose keystrokes at times.  This can be very annoying when you're
> trying to type in a password and it misses keystrokes, as no program
> (DTlogin, login, ssh) echoes back *'s when you type in a password.)
> 
> I've resorted to turning keyclick on, but it's too loud and annoying...
> 
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem?  Does anyone else NOT have this
> problem?
> 
> It doesn't seem to be OS related either, as it seems to happen in the Open
> Boot Prom also.
> 
> Both the 3GS and the 3GX have had broken pointers, I've fixed one of them
> as per the SparcBook hardware hacking SAQ (
> http://www.sunder.net/sparcbook/index.html )
>