#5658 NORM Ship.2: Sticky Alt or Control Key

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#5658: Sticky Alt or Control Key
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  Reporter:  davidpfarrell  |       Owner:  wad      
      Type:  defect         |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Ship.2   
 Component:  hardware       |     Version:  Build 650
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0              |    Blocking:           
 Blockedby:                 |  
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Comment(by briandorsey):

 I've got another point of reference on the theory of pressure on the
 rubber keyboard membrane. Yesterday, I tried something new after failing
 with the dehydration trick, and proving that my issue is caused by the
 keyboard itself (by disconnecting the keyboard ribbon and running with an
 external keyboard).

 I took the base completely apart and gently lifted the lower left-hand
 corner of the rubber keys up from the sensors. I looked at the ALT sensor,
 but didn't see anything obviously different about it. After putting the
 machine back together, my ALT troubles have vanished. It's now been nearly
 24 hours since then and I tested the keyboard hourly for the first 12
 hours of that. Since this has been a fairly intermittent problem for me, I
 can't declare success yet, but it looks very promising.

 Regarding the OFW keyboard test: I'm still seeing phantom stuck letter
 keys in the OFW test occasionally, but ONLY after pressing that key very
 quickly and I'm not seeing any trouble with stuck letter keys in linux.

 I typed this on my XO, and for now at least, I'm very happy!

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