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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:49:47 -0400
From:      "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   keyboard initialization in freebsd
Message-ID:  <80f4f2b20803260549o5b54814ax901bd502a7bf9135@mail.gmail.com>

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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



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