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Subject: kern/3739: pause key not disabled; weird stuff when pressed
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>Number:         3739
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       pause key not disabled; weird stuff when pressed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun  1 07:40:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Donn Miller
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2.2-RELEASE
>Environment:
FreeBSD myname.my.domain 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #2: Sun Jun  1 06:5
3:20 GMT 1997     root@myname.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM  i386
>Description:
The pause key is not disabled on the AT keyboard.  When 'pause' is hit
(like during 'cat' of a large file) some weird stuff happens.
The file will resume scrolling only after pressing 'pause' key
2 or 3 times.  After the scrolling of text is finished, the key
mappings are screwed-up.  For example, pressing p is the same as
'left arrow', the s key does something else, etc.  If you press ^C, the shell exits.  If you press scroll lock about 5 times, followed by ^C, the terminal is restored.
>How-To-Repeat:
cat a really big file, then press 'pause'.  Try pressing 'pause' key
again to resume scrolling ( > 3 times).  Then try pressing some keys.
There should be some weird stuff happening. Then:  if you press ^C,
you may get logged out.  If you press 'scroll lock' several times
THEN ^C (may need several ^C's), the terminal will come back.
>Fix:
Add a patch to the syscons driver that disables 'pause' or modifies
the functionality of it.  This may only be a problem on certain
keyboards.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: