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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt)
Cc:        borgerse@cs.unc.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Valuepoints & CAPSLOCK
Message-ID:  <199702150148.RAA08810@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702131812.TAA28894@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 13, 97 07:12:14 pm"

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> > Whenever I hit the CAPSLOCK key (and sometimes when I hit one
> > of the CTRL keys) FreeBSD hangs the active session.
> 
> This problem is fixed in 2.2 and -current, its due to an interrupt
> getting lost somehow (the reason is not really understood yet)..

This happens on my machine while running X sometimes. The fix is:

  echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem

I set up an alias "aaa" for this command; you can usually find
an 'a' and a blank line to cut & paste with the mouse.

-Archie

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