Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:14:12 -0800
From:      Steven Wallace <swallace@ece.uci.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org, dawes@xfree86.org
Subject:   Re: unexpected signal 2? 
Message-ID:  <199612172314.PAA08307@newport.ece.uci.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:36:27 %2B1100." <199612171036.VAA18150@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>Also, I've always had this annonying problem using a PS/2 mouse,
>>which is why I end up using a serial one.  When I use device
>>/dev/psm0 and protocol PS/2, sometimes the keyboard state gets messed
>>up so that the X server thinks a modifier key (control, alt) will 
>>remain in the depressed state when the key is not pressed.  I
> 
> This should work better in FreeBSD-current and -2.2.  The psm and
> syscons drivers can now separate psm and keyboard scancodes.
> 

Hmmm, I'd say "better" is correct.  It doesn't seem to happen as frequently,
but it still happens in -2.2.  Perhaps there is a scancode that
is getting confused?

Steven




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199612172314.PAA08307>