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Date:      Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:07:01 -0700
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To:        Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Inspiron 7000 ALT/Windows keys
Message-ID:  <200001101907.e0AJ75P10036@orthanc.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:06:15 %2B0900." <200001090406.NAA07901@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 

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>>>>> "Kazutaka" == Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> writes:

    Kazutaka> In what environment do you have the problem?  

It's coming from the keyboard drivers itself. (I.e. I see the behaviour
when logged in on ttyv*.)

    Kazutaka> If you
    Kazutaka> have the problem in the X session, it must be the X
    Kazutaka> server's key mapping which is somewhat wrong.

I see the same behaviour in X.

    Kazutaka> If you have the problem in the text console, tell me
    Kazutaka> which keymap file in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps you are
    Kazutaka> using, or dump the keymap by running:

I see the same thing with the default keymap and the us.emacs.kbd
map.

    Kazutaka> 	kbdcontrol -d
    Kazutaka> in the text console and send it to me for diagnosis.

I'll send this seperately.

    Kazutaka> On more thing. You mention the "standard left ALT
    Kazutaka> behavior".  What do you exactly mean by that?

Set the high-bit on the character.

--lyndon



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