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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Keyboard CAPS-LOCK hangs system??
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:32:32 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <2kfgc2INN68k@twain.ucs.umass.edu>,
Peter deFriesse <peter@twain.ucs.umass.edu> wrote:
>  I have just installed FreeBSD 1.0.2 and have a nagging, to say the 
>least problem.  Any contact with the caps-lock key causes the system 
>to hang immediately.  The only recourse is to do a hard reset.

This is fixed in the upcoming release.  If you wait a little while longer
you can upgrade to that version and by using the new syscons driver all
of the problems should disappear.


[ Yeah, we're frustrated about not getting it out too, but we want it to
  be a good product more than we want it out the door. ]

Nate

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