From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 12 22:46:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19711 for current-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19705 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 22:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00380 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:13:52 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710130543.PAA00380@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible sc0 problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:30:13 +0200." <199710121830.UAA16761@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:13:49 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > > 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. This sucks even more when you find that a lot of systems (laptops, embedded systems) don't _have_ two ALT keys. > The fun will not last long, so I suggest to backout this change. The correct fix is to have ALT-Fn do the "right thing", while still generating Meta- This is left as an exercise to the original committer. 8) mike