Hi,

I'm new to VO and I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit on a Dell Precision M6300 laptop (2.4 dual core, nVidia QuadroFX 1600m 256MB, HDA Intel audio).

I have 2 issues with the keyboard and VO. The first is that in-game if I accidentally turn caps-lock on all the alphabetic keyboard controls stop working (e.g. z selects the hostile in front, Z does nothing)

The second issue is that I noticed the volume buttons on my headset and keyboard stop working after VO is started. When I exit VO the keyboard is totally non responsive unless I log out and log back in again. Fox example I can click into the address bar on Firefox but I can't type anything.

Has anybody else seen these issues please?

Thanks,
Papa

I've noticed the caps-lock issue while accidentally hitting it when trying to straf during battle.

This is a homegrown desktop/tower system with a Gigabyte MOBO, G11 Logitech KB.

Having separate actions for capital and lowercase is a feature - you can bind things that are essential to hit quickly and simply to the lowercase letters, and bind less important stuff to capital letters. Plus, this is already used for things like sector and guild chat (T and G respectively).

I do agree that it's annoying when you hit capslock by accident though. It would be neat if VO had an option to ignore the capslock key. Even better would be if you could bind it to something when it's being "ignored". That would be a good key for people to use with their turbo toggle aliases.

It would need to be optional though, because some people might like being able to use capslock as capslock - they might have the lowercase keys configured for combat, and have the capital keys configured in a completely different layout that works better for mining and trading. Pressing capslock would then let them toggle between the modes.

EDIT: Meanwhile, it might be worth going through and binding your strafe controls and such to their uppercase versions as a safety precaution. That way it at least wouldn't be an "oh crap, now I'm dead" type of problem. (You can have each action bound to as many different keys as you fancy all at the same time, which is really nice.)

Hi,

Thanks. I'll give that a go.

The biggest pain problem is that my keyboard totally stops working when I exit VO. I did find a workaround:

Click the lock/shut down/logout icon on the Gnome task bar and then "shut down" to produce the "Are you sure you want to close all programs and shut down the computer?" prompt then press Escape to cancel the shut down. The keyboard then starts working again.

Cheers,
Papa

What happens exactly? You asked me this today ingame & I hadn't experienced it until today. My ubuntu 10.10 just beeps at me what I type a key.. I told you I was getting a new keyboard today, well I did and it is still doing the same thing to me... So I came here and found your thread, but I'm confused about your process.. If I hit shutdown, it ask me cancel or shutdown, canceling does nothing and Esc does nothing, and if I hit shutdown, i can't abort that.. i shutdown.

Does this sound like the same problem? I fixed my number key problem just to have a another problem... btw this is the same keyboard and same laptop, i just booted into windows instead & it works fine... so it has to be something with Ubuntu.

Maybe try switching to and from a virtual terminal (which is not a terminal emulator):

CTRL-ALT-F2, then when it gets done switching, use ALT-F7 (or so, might be one of the other F* keys depending on your specific setup) to switch back to the gui. Make sure you use the left ALT key, because this technique only works with that one.

I have no idea what is behind the problem you are having so I don't know if this will work, just thought I'd mention it in case it does.

I also believe this is a problem in my particular profile, as it doesn't do this to me in root.