6.8.2.0-2: Shift and control keys don't operate

[Ed Greenberg]

--On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:56 PM +0200 Alexander Gottwald 
<Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> Ed Greenberg wrote:
>
>> Following up my own post. I note while running xev that the shift and
>> control keys do not cause events. The xev output window indicates all the
>> other keys, but not those.
>
> That's odd. What kind of keyboard do you have? Maybe there are programs
> running which grab some of the keys and translate them to a different kind
> of messages.
>
> bye

This is a pretty plain vanilla Win XP Prof SP2 installation.

Can somebody on XP SP2 with a US keyboard please run xev and see if shift 
and control keys generate scancodes?

</edg>