From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 1 20:43:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA10507 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:43:08 -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 UAA10501 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 20:43:04 -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 XAA22256 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:43:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA02901 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:43:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:43:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad Keyboard problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > 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. Additionally, I have noticed that, when the keyboard enters this incorrect state, X is still able to read it properly, pointing to a syscons bug, yes? [syscons bug or not, that doesn't really help me with the problem at hand...] -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk