Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 16:12:41 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com> Subject: Re: ThinkPad X20 keyboard mapping problems Message-ID: <200108052312.f75NCfm12559@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:50:33 PDT." <a0500190eb7937cfddbdc@[192.168.1.1]>
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> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:50:33 -0700
> From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net>
> >
> >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.
You miss the point. It's not the key-map that's broken. It's the
presentation of characters on the screen that is messed up. (Of
course, it's still possible that I have simply mis-diagnosed the
problem.)
Create the file in a directory in the execution path, chmod the file
to 755 and rehash. When the screen goes nuts, carefully type the name
of the script. If you give the script an all upper-case name
(e.g. FIX-FONT), the command should even echo back correctly.
Of course, if you are running a program, you will need to suspend the
program (CTRL-Z), run the fix, and continue the program (fg).
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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