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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),
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Subject: Re: Stuck! 2.2 Gamma won't go.
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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?
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