Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: i386/4030: syscons thinks CTRL is always pressed Message-ID: <199707070430.VAA23019@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/4030; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: ac199@hwcn.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: i386/4030: syscons thinks CTRL is always pressed
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 12:49:25 +0900
>>Number: 4030
>>Category: i386
>>Synopsis: syscons thinks CTRL pressed, must reboot [repeatable]
>>Confidential: no
>>Severity: critical
>>Priority: medium
>>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>>State: open
>>Class: sw-bug
>>Submitter-Id: current-users
>>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 4 06:20:01 PDT 1997
>>Last-Modified:
>>Originator: Tim Vanderhoek
>>Organization:
>Syscons users
>>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
[snip]
>>Description:
>
>I use a modified keyboard map. /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/my.map
>has the following line modified,
>
> 090 cr rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl rctrl O
>
>When I act as described in "How-To-Repeat", syscons will begin thinking
>that one of the ctrl keys is always pressed. ie. pressing a `d' sends
>^D. It then becomes necessary to reboot (since the computer is quite
>unusable). If X is running, it, of course, is not affected.
Try this patch for /sys/i386/isa/syscons.c.
--- syscons.c-1.220 Mon Jun 30 22:31:49 1997
+++ syscons.c Mon Jul 7 12:35:14 1997
@@ -3039,7 +3039,7 @@
/* Check for make/break */
action = key->map[state];
if (scancode & 0x80) { /* key released */
- if (key->spcl & 0x80) {
+ if (key->spcl & (0x80>>state)) {
switch (action) {
case LSH:
shfts &= ~1;
>This did not happen (I don't _believe_ it happened) in the SNAP of 2.2
>that I had been running before.
If the above patch works, then the problem did happen in the past too,
I guess.
Kazu
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