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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: i386/4030: syscons thinks CTRL is always pressed 
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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