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From: gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Keyboard?
Message-ID: <3720@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
Date: 7 Jul 93 20:46:35 GMT
References: <1993Jul2.215232.27357@news.cs.indiana.edu> <YUHARA.93Jul6132003@MC10.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU>
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In article <YUHARA.93Jul6132003@MC10.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU>, yuhara@CS.CMU.EDU (Masanobu Yuhara) writes:
|> > For some reason, my version of 386bsd kills the keyboard.  It run run the
|> > fixit disk or the dist disk(i am just installing it)  The numlock key is on
|> > for a second and then it dies.  I am using a Gateway 2000 124key AnyKey
|> > keyboard, but that shouldn't be a problem.
|> 
|> I have experienced the same problem since I applied patchkit 0.2.4.
|> I have no problem until 0.2.3. My machine is Gateway2000 66V with the
|> AnyKey keyborad, too. I know another Gateway has the same problem.
|> 
|> The current workaround is to start typing the Num-lock key during fsck,
|> and continue to type it untli the Num-lock LED is lit.
|> 
|> ----------
|> Masanobu Yuhara		yuhara@cs.cmu.edu
|> Carnegie Mellon University

The same with my machine (but it is a REAL CLONE(tm)). One of the gurus (Chris?)
told me that the code switching the leds was the bad boy. May be that my
keyboard controller is not as compatible, as he has to be. But I can live 
without this caps-lock key. Thr first time I had the 'pccons-parker'-patch.
But this patch doesn't fit anymore. 

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