Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:49:29 -0500 From: Noah Dunker <ndunker@jccc.net> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Laptop - Garbled Keyboard? Message-ID: <C18E28011272D41180AD00B0D0496C0801C0215C@ns-exch05>
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This is really baking my noodle. I acquired an IBM ThinkPad 755C (which I lovingly refer to as the "StinkPad") and FreeBSD /really/ hates the keyboard on it. The keyboard works fine within BTX. I can type whatever I want, however I want before the kernel loads. I built a new kernel with: options PCVT_SCANSET=2 As shown in the "kernelconfig.html" part of the handbook, which seems to be the only documented "ThinkPad" specific thing in the kernel, saying the ThinkPad uses a non- standard keyboard. Since i can get in with BTX, I fed it the new kernel path, and It didn't make a darn bit of difference. Telnetting in and running uname -a, I could verify the new kernel was indeed running, and not the GENERIC kernel. I can't remember what all it does, but I remember that the letter "a" produces 2 carriage returns, and most of the "dead keys" such as Shift, Control, and Alt will produce normal letters or strange control characters, making it impossible to cleanly shut down the system from the console. Any clues on this one? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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