[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 5 May at 15:19, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> One of the benefits of VA is the ease with which I can swap in and out
> of my Virtual desktop to my Windows XP desktop. (Although I would
> prefer to use RISC OS all of the time I live in a world where from
> time to time I need to use software under Windows in particular to
> check whether my web sites display correctly on Firefox etc.) The only
> problem I have with this is that /sometimes/ on returning to the RISC
> OS desktop I find an uncontrollable carriage return which always
> requires a reboot. By this I mean that on opening eg a Zap or Ovation
> Pro window the caret rushes to the bottom of the page and the window
> then continues to scroll downwards at high speed. A series of <Escape>
> presses temporarily fixes the problem but it then lies in wait ready
> to pounce again just as I am doing something important.

I have occasionally seen a key go into auto-repeat and refuse all
blandishments to stop.  So have to reboot.

> I have swapped programs in and out on both sides and am now trying a
> third keyboard in case the problem is hardware related. Aaron was
> unable to shed any light on the forum so I am asking here if anyone
> else has seen this and if so have you fixed it?

Aaron has sent me an update to deal with keyboard freezings but I have
chickened out of trying it in case it wrecks my existing usable, though
not entirely stable, set-up.

I have backups onto an external disc but I wonder if there is a way of
setting up a parallel environment for testing?  (VARPC 1.6.6 with RISC
OS 6.14.)

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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