From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 12 16:55:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA29175 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28966; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:54:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA13376; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:24:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971013092405.17126@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:24:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wolfgang Helbig Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, rickl@ic.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem References: <29519.876676285@time.cdrom.com> <199710121830.UAA16761@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199710121830.UAA16761@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>; from Wolfgang Helbig on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 08:30:13PM +0200 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 08:30:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: >> Before we blame Soren, what are we all talking about here? The Alt >> key is on the right now, as per my change to kbdtables.h, and the left > > At least on the german keyboard, the right ALT key (marked with ``Alt'') > is on the left side, and the right ALT key for switching to another > vtty is marked with ``Alt Gr''. > > So this might provoke some fun in FreeBSD-questions if a newbie is > guided to through installing 2.2.5 and is asked to press the right > ALT key and F2. > > The fun will not last long, so I suggest to backout this change. I can't recall that AltGr and a function key has any meaning. Does it? Otherwise we don't have a conflict here. We could, of course, go for the right Ctrl key instead. Does anybody know of any special use for it? Greg