Q: Waking After sleep
When the laptop is left for some time, it sleeps ( the screen goes blank). When I press the mouse the password screen appears. Till recently, I was able to type the password and wake the machine.
Now, when I type any key it just makes a beep sound and no key appears in the edit box for the password. If I press the ESCAPE key, then stars appear in the edit box. But, do anything, the characters don't appear. Then I keep the power button pressed for some time. Switch off the machine. Start the machine again.
Any help?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Posted on Jan 20, 2013 8:49 PM
Incidentally my problem got solved by an accidental observation. The original problem was as follows:
"The system after sleep when wakes up, does not accept any alpaha-numeric keys other than making a beep sound. And then I have to keep pressing the power button to reboot. THIS HAPPENS OFTEN AND NOT ALWAYS- Am not able to discover when this happens and when not"
I had intalled KeyMagic for Malayam keyboard. Unlike offline transliterators, where, only when the focus into the transliterator editor window, the key presses are interpreted for photnetic transliteration, in Mac KeyMagic, once I set the keyboard to KeyMagic wherever my focus is, the keys are interpreted differently. The ESC sequence changes I suppose.
So when the system goes into sleep, if the key board is selected as KeyMagic, then when it awakes, they keys are interpreted as such and does not allow. If the key board is US, then it allows the key press!!
So now I have made it a practice to switch the key board to US as soon as my work with KeyMagic is over
As simple as that!! Ooops!!
Thanks to all for the help extended.
Posted on Feb 3, 2013 8:37 PM