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Subject: Re: Syscons and X
To: fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
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In reply to James Raynard who wrote:
> 
> I've recently switched back to using syscons after successfully
> running pcvt for several months and have noticed something strange.
> 
> Sometimes when I quit X and type anything at the console, any keys
> that I press seem to be read as if I were holding the control key
> down, eg if I press 'p', the last command I typed appears at the
> prompt, pressing 'l' clears the screen and 'd' logs me out!

Ahem, I know of this bug too, its on my list of "known errors"..
I also know what happens, but damn if I can understand why :(
Anyways I'm committing a new version of syscons later today that
sports textmode cut&paste plus some other bugfixes, I'll take a
plunge and see if I can get this fixed also...


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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
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