Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 11:10:57 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: pcvt25 and numlock weirdness Message-ID: <199605141510.LAA02849@ohm.merit.edu>
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I found the syscons stuff (scons25) to be fine for the native 2.1R FreeBSD environment on a ThinkPad 701CS) but it has some serious shortcomings when interfacing with other UNIX boxes over a modem (kermit) link (UNIX termcap entries didn't have any close matches). So, I rebuilt my kernel (had to anyway) with the pcvt stuff and I have found a very frustrating (and very fishy) feature of the pcvt25 code. Several (random) keys (at random times) seem to produce the key codes for the "numlock" feature of the ThinkPad keyboard. Nate Williams has told me he has seen this pcvt25 behaviour as well. This is driving me crazy! This didn't happen with the scons25 code, so I don't think it has anything to do with a flakey keyboard. Am I now screwed (having to use scons25 even though I don't want to), or is there a work-around to this problem or a fix (maybe in some later code)? Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185
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