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From: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall)
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Subject: Re: KEYBOARD goes crazy
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> 
> Jerry Kendall writes:
> > 
> > I just setup two computers, a 386-40 with DOS/WINDOWS and a Pentium-75 running
> > FreeBSD 2.0.5R.
> > 
> > They share the same monitor and keyboard via a 'little switch box'.
> > 
> > The problem is when I switch from/to the FreeBSD box. The input from
> > the keyboard gets messed up. If I run DOS/WINDOWS on both systems, I can
> > switch between them without any trouble. It seems to be related to switching
> > from/to FreeBSD.
> > 
> > At the login prompt, I type 'l' and I see '^L' on the screen. If I am
> > logged in and type 'd', it interprets it as '^D' and logs me out. I tried
> > switch to another screen via 'ALT-Fx' and it still is messed up.
> 
> It looks as if the keyboard driver thinks the Ctrl key is pressed.
> Could be that it gets some kind of noise when switching, and the
> keyboard driver interprets it as a Ctrl key press and no release.  If
> that's the case, you should be able to fix it by pressing the Ctrl
> key, releasing it and trying again.
> 
> Greg

Well.
Guess what???

It seems that Greg is correct. When I got the ^L charactares etc...
I pressed the control keys and WOW it made the problem go away.

Thanks.

Jerry