From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 22:38:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA16835 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16829 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 22:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Jupiter.Mcs.Net (font@Jupiter.mcs.net [192.160.127.88]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id AAA06823 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:38:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (font@localhost) by Jupiter.Mcs.Net (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA03773 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:38:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:38:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Font To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What's wrong with my keyboard? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am using 2.2.2-RELEASE. I have a keymap which maps: ` to ESC caps lock to LCTRL shift-ESC to ~ The original ESC key is still ESC. When I type RSHIFT, ESC, release ESC, release RSHIFT, ~ is produced. When I type RSHIFT, ESC, release RSHIFT, release ESC, ~ is produced. When I type RSHIFT, `, release `, release RSHIFT, ~ is produced. When I type RSHIFT, `, release RSHIFT, release `, ~ ESC is produced. All but the last of these four behaviors (when two characters are generated instead of just one) seem correct. Is there a way I can get my "new" escape/tilde key to work like the "real" escape key? I tried looking at /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/kbdtables.h, which appears to hold the default mappings, and couldn't find any clues. Or perhaps this anomaly is just the way the keyboard hardware works? (The behavior has been thus on multiple machines on which I've installed FreeBSD.) This doesn't seem to have anything to do with keyboard repeat rates. Also, whether it's LSHIFT or RSHIFT, the behavior is the same. Maybe I'm too nitpicky, but proper keyboard layout -- and consistent functionality thereof -- is an essential part of my working environment. I guess remote logons from a NeXT would be the next-best thing for me. :-) dw -- A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers font to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM. @ mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.