Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:53:59 -0500 From: exidor@superior.net (Christopher Masto) To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Cc: tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stuck! 2.2 Gamma won't go. Message-ID: <19970210095359.GY05402@@> In-Reply-To: <199702101300.WAA04407@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Feb 10, 1997 22:00:30 %2B0900 References: <3.0.1.32.19970210022848.00691d20@bugs.us.dell.com> <199702101300.WAA04407@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > As for the dead keyboard, I haven't figured out why this is happening > in XF86Setup. The keyboard and PS/2 mouse I/O routines distinguish > keyboard and mouse data and tries hard not to stumble upon each other > feet. Whichever mouse protocol XF86Setup thinks it is dealing with, it > won't affect the psm driver; the driver just passes read data to > XF86Setup, which will, BTW, certainly be confused if a wrong protocol > is specified. > > Besides, if Ctl-Alt-F? and Ctl-Alt-BS are working, I have to say that > at least these key codes are received and processed correctly by > syscons internally (Ctl-Alt-F?) or properly fed to XF86Setup > (Ctl-Alt-BS). This, I think, indicates that the keyboard interrupt is > working as it should and key codes are read from the keyboard > controller without problems, but somewhere, someone is unable to > interpret normal keys... Aren't the keys different when the mouse button is held down? -- Christopher Masto . . . . chris@masto.com . . . . . Masto Consulting: info@masto.com On Redundancy: I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. - J. Curtis McKay of the Wisconsin State Elections Board.
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