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From: gt@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Console problems
Keywords: CapsLock
Message-ID: <4076@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 9 Oct 93 02:59:24 GMT
References: <291rma$ffu@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>
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Organization: GMD Berlin (FIRST)
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In article <291rma$ffu@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz>,
Jan Pernica <pernik@varda.ics.muni.cs> wrote:
:I have  a problem with my keyboard. When I press the CapsLock key
:then keyboard will die and doesn't work. I tried it on two independt
:machines with NetBSD 0.8 and the result is the same :
:  machine works, but keyboard doesn't.
:
:Could somebody tell me why ?

I have a similar problem; every time I press CAPS LOCK my whole machine dies
(wait, it is only the software).

Someone from the upper 20 ( I forget who it was, cgd i think ) told me that
it is a problem with the console driver, better: it is a problem with
the keyboard chip. Every time the console driver wants to set the LEDs 
something in the keyboard chip went wrong and stop the system.

There are two solutions:
   rewrite the console driver
   disable your CAPS LOCK key (that is what I have done; 10 second work)
If you prefere solution one, please send me your patches.

/gT/
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