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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:10:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        KentH@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US
Subject:   Re: Keyboard lockout on 2.x.x
Message-ID:  <199602191810.TAA12654@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602191157.FAA00984@gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us> from "Kent Hamilton" at Feb 19, 96 05:57:09 am

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As Kent Hamilton wrote:

> I remembered someone saying it had to do with the LED's, I have 
> re-set the machines to not turn them on at boot and I almost never
> use a caps/num lock anyway.  What else will toggle the LED states?
> Scroll lock which I never use... anything else?

It doesn't matter whether LEDs would really be toggled.  The command
is always sent to the keyboard on a VT switch, even if the update will
yield the same LED state as previously.  Hence the line conflict will
always happen.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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