From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 1 17:38:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA03189 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA03184 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA29015 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:38:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id UAA05640 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:38:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:38:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad Keyboard problem Message-ID: X-Secret-Message: KCUFKCUFKCUFKCUFKCKFFUFUCKFUFCKFUCKfadsjkfUCzkfds!!#@$KJ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just upgraded from a prerelease snap of 2.2 to 2.2.2-RELEASE. Since then, I've noticed a rather bad problem, Occasionally, FreeBSD will begin acting as if my Control key is constantly pressed. That is, a `j' will generate an '^J'. This would occasionally happen before the upgrade but I was always able to fix the problem by pressing all of my Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys. This no longer works. Further, with the upgrade, the frequency has increased to the point where my system is only marginally useable. Timing is important, but I can cause it to happen repeatedly. Logging in on vty0, quickly typing '*X*' and then switching to vty4 will usually do it. Before upgrading, I don't believe this would have consistently caused the problem (although I did have a repeatable way of generating it then, too). The only thing nonstandard on my keymap is the right control key being mapped to 'cr'. This is the same keymap I had before I upgraded. I have P100, with an Award PCI/ISA Bios, 2A59CG0A. In the case they mean anything, "dram precharge wait state" = 0, and "dram wait state" = 1. As already mentioned, freshly-installed FreeBSD-2.2.2. The kernel is GENERIC, but I've disabled everything I don't use. Nothing interesting showed up with a verbose boot. I sort'a need to see this solved... [I was tempted to send this to -hackers instead, but I hope this is a more common problem] [Wow! In less than one week, I've managed to total my car, not back-up my hd and then erase most of it upgrading, then upgrade to a marginally useable FreeBSD version, and I might lose my license, yet... I'm doing purdy good, eh?! :) Good thing one doesn't require hacking licenses (yet) or I'd probably lose that for not backing-up... :] TIA [Last minute piece of advice: NEVER follow a black sports car :-] -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk