Re: Keyboard Problem. Help!

[David A Lyons <dlyons@apple.com>]

In article <1993Feb26.205212.10817@seq.uncwil.edu> Craig Caroon,
caroon@seq.uncwil.edu writes:
> I am having a keyboard problem with my IIGS.  Sometimes, lots of the
> time lately, it will just die...I mean it will stop sending input
> of any kind to the machine.  The mouse will still work properly but
> the keyboard freezes. I can't do OPEN_APPLE CONTROL RESET or anything.
> I have to turn the thing off and then back on to get the keyboard to
> work again.  It always seems to happen when I'm in a text-based program,
> but then again it might be happening other times and I just dont know it
> because I'm not really using the keyboard , I'm using the mouse instead.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it is not an application problem because it happens 
> with all sorts of stuff, such as when I'm in Orca shell and when using
> Apple II kermit and when I'm playing Infocom Games.
> 
> Does anyone know why or has anyone had the same or a similar problem?

If you have a ROM 1 system and EasyAccess is in your System: System.Setup
folder, try removing it.  Some applications don't work with EasyAccess on
ROM 1.

(Specifically, while interrupts are turned off, you can't read the
keyboard, and you can't even hit Reset.  Easy Access inserts itself
logically between the keyboard and the normal method of reading from the
keyboard, and it handles all keystrokes itself during ADB interrupts.)

David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
Internet:dlyons@apple.com                 |   Cupertino, CA 95015-0875

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.