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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:10:02 -0700
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Keyboard issues in KDE when using vt
Message-ID:  <CAETOPp0Mev-LOQqVda4KNT6LUgXpnxQDtMVu2MTp=HuDU8CV8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5324D305.1080201@orange.fr>
References:  <CAETOPp2cVL-zWbGAWrwoTgB2JyTGQJ3yCQotHUp1X2a86OzAHA@mail.gmail.com> <5324D305.1080201@orange.fr>

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Hi Claude,

On Mar 15, 2014 3:24 PM, "Claude Buisson" <clbuisson@orange.fr> wrote:
>
> On 03/15/2014 19:04, Jos Backus wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I replaced sc with vt and start KDE, my PS/2 keyboard doesn't work
>> properly. Initially after an xterm comes up, I can't type at all (no
>> keystrokes are regularly) but after a few seconds a key starts repeating
at
>> the repeat rate, and there is no correlation between the keys pressed and
>> the keystrokes displayed. When I rebuild the same kernel with sc,
>> everything works normally. As far as I can tell, this has been happening
>> ever since vt was committed.
>>
>> Please let me know how I can help debug this problem.
>>
>
> This looks like the problem I encountered a few weeks ago, with a custom
kernel,
> which did not show with the GENERIC kernel.
>
> I solved it by including the kbdmux device in my kernel.

That solved it for me, too. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the vt
documentation?

>
>> Thanks,
>> Jos
>
>
> Hope that helps,

It did, thanks!

Salut,
Jos

>
> CBu
>
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