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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: kern/3739: pause key not disabled; weird stuff when pressed 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3739; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: kern/3739: pause key not disabled; weird stuff when pressed 
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:14:34 +0900

 >I think I know what happens here:  on (U.S.) PC's, the 'pause' key is tied
 >to a particular BIOS routine that pauses whatever output is being sent to
 >the screen.  However, the syscons driver wants to do another routine when
 >this key is pressed.  Maybe the interaction between the BIOS activities
 >and the syscons driver is causing weird things to happen.
 
 No. This isn't the case here. BIOS is not involved in any way. While
 FreeBSD is running, the keyboard BIOS won't get control; we are in
 the protected mode :-)
 
 Kazu