From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 5 15:50:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wintermute.primelogic.com (wintermute.primelogic.com [207.189.136.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E8437B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michelle@eugene.net) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (c886028-a.eugene1.or.home.com [24.14.231.140]) by wintermute.primelogic.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA25682; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: michelle@primelogic.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:50:33 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Michelle Brownsworth Subject: Re: ThinkPad X20 keyboard mapping problems Cc: "Scott D. Yelich" , "Kevin Oberman" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> > Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:13:13 -0700 >> > From: Michelle Brownsworth >> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG >> > >> > Hmm... interesting analysis. I might suggest to my buddy that he >> > experiment with some of your tips before recompiling the kernel with >> > pvct instead of the syscons console driver. See my recent reply to >> > Nate Williams, with subject "ThinkPad console drivers (was: Boot >> > hangs on mounting root with wireless card inserted)." >> >> Yes, I've seen it. I'd really suggest sticking with syscons if >> possible. You can test this with a simple shell, perl, or just about >> anything else script or program. >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> >> print "^O"; >> exit; >> >> Note that you must enter the ^O as a control character. In emacs or vi >> this is CTRL-Q CTRL-O. > > >sigh... in the time that it too you to exaplin how to fix the >corruption that is going to happen from this style of coding, >you could have presented a cut'n'paste-able code: > >#!/usr/bin/perl > >$cntrlo=pack("c",15); >print "$cntrlo"; > >Scott Kevin and Scott, Please excuse my obtuseness, but if the console is in the alternate char set mode, how would one execute the Perl script that restores it to normal? Perhaps I'm missing the point. .\\ichelle --------------------- Michelle Brownsworth System Administrator PrimeLogic Communications http://www.primelogic.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message