From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 12:49:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265F9106564A for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2AC18FC1B for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:49:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so4650424wxd.7 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:49:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=rhMhsp/9pE6bj6b2Wxj/XabohLZeDaRkSwqbRARtIjY=; b=ohKGcHPrusstCA0iAYN+IwV0bmDb0xcT2z5CYHZUVpIGpKUeSE7DwHn+Zr+GdZqxjF39QEBNpluffqf1SliRAiC1RedWJhXEXVAqX6zTJcr0cL3B0+9Mm9pPXT4Fdt1PsRKZyPn869bqabp+1Gqo5N7+yGmSBSP3nKzcfV4l/js= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=WzJaDGzbul7QC5L33hMayt0NuehifsUSy25IkZfDS1Mka2YNCCIFe+x8EEXhSpOhkgPxqHEH0ynhjBS8kcLI715X5J+SYm+pjYFGKl3QyRjn7bM1iHjtpYf2CstILxgleyjVnTVioZ0AuvHYj6JQPhlzXjZJj/pbPPj7vhZmCMU= Received: by 10.100.252.17 with SMTP id z17mr25064557anh.79.1206535787216; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.151.7 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20803260549o5b54814ax901bd502a7bf9135@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:49:47 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: keyboard initialization in freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:49:48 -0000 Can anyone give me information on keyboard initialization during boot-up related to my issues listed below? In 6.2, my system booted up, and worked fine. [alt][ctrl][f#] would switch consoles, and I was happy. In 7.0, the same would not happen. After googling, I found some multimedia keyboards, like mine, had keys to switch F# to a "special" key. I hit a few keys that had weird pictures that didn't really describe what they'd do, and I turned my F# keys, back into F# keys. Were there any changes between 6.2 and 7.0 that would cause 7.0 to start up the keyboard in the alternate F# mode? Note, xev didn't recognize a keypress from any [F#] key when it was in the alternate mode. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton