From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 15:31: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC7E154DB; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA83224; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:29:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA05731; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:28:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199909172228.QAA05731@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Pritchard Subject: Re: Weird syscons keyboard behaviour Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:43:45 CDT." <199909171143.GAA00356@mpp.pro-ns.net> References: <199909171143.GAA00356@mpp.pro-ns.net> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:28:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199909171143.GAA00356@mpp.pro-ns.net> Mike Pritchard writes: : I've noticed some odd syscons keyboard behaviour over the past : month or so. Sometimes I get a vty that outputs PC graphics characters : for all of my input. This is always at a "login:" prompt. I think : I can duplicate this by typing a bunch of garbage at a login prompt, : but I don't feel like trying to test it right now and have to : reboot my main machine. syscons can get confused about the state of the CTRL key. I see exactly this if i hit ^C to sendmail just before the keymap changes since the key up event is after the keymap change and that key is no longer ctrl. However, hitting the control key several times seems to fix this. Next time you see the problem, you might want to try this. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message