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Title: One key on a kinesis advantage is acting up, what could be wrong?
Post by: jonasbrossuck on Wed, 08 April 2015, 18:45:27

the left arrow key on my keyboard(cherry brown switch) is acting up in a weird way...

the malfunctioning has nothing to do with the OS that it's running(i think), but i'm running linux, and when _any_ application, in this case, firefox, is open, and i press the left arrow key, it brings up the unity menu "type your command" (like when the alt key is pressed), but if i press the left arrow key more times, then firefox navigates to the previous page(as if ctrl+left arrow key is pressed)

i'm guessing that by pressing the left arrow key, something is messed up so the signal for ctrl, alt, and left are sent? how can i possiblly fix this?

in Ubuntu, the output of running  the command,

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    showkey -a

in ubuntu, for pressing up, down, right, left, is

 

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   ^[[A 27 0033 0x1b
           91 0133 0x5b
           65 0101 0x41
    ^[[B 27 0033 0x1b
           91 0133 0x5b
           66 0102 0x42
    ^[[C 27 0033 0x1b
           91 0133 0x5b
           67 0103 0x43
    ^[[1;3D 27 0033 0x1b
           91 0133 0x5b
           49 0061 0x31
           59 0073 0x3b
           51 0063 0x33
           68 0104 0x44
Thanks!

Title: Re: One key on a kinesis advantage is acting up, what could be wrong?
Post by: jacobolus on Wed, 08 April 2015, 18:51:22

You should open it up and take a look at the pcb, and ideally poke around with a multimeter. Sounds like a couple of your traces are shorted together. If you take a high resolution photo of the relevant part of the pcb and post it in the living soldering thread, someone might be able to spot the problem.

Title: Re: One key on a kinesis advantage is acting up, what could be wrong?
Post by: jonasbrossuck on Thu, 09 April 2015, 02:13:43

Quote from: jacobolus on Wed, 08 April 2015, 18:51:22

You should open it up and take a look at the pcb, and ideally poke around with a multimeter. Sounds like a couple of your traces are shorted together. If you take a high resolution photo of the relevant part of the pcb and post it in the living soldering thread, someone might be able to spot the problem.

i'll try to do that once i find access to a screw driver, thanks!