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From: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: does rebooting the bridgecard do bad things to the amiga side ?
Message-ID: <5216@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 88 17:49:16 GMT
References: <5214@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <7799@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter)
Distribution: comp
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <7799@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rszinn@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Scotte Zinn) writes:
>In article <5214@watcgl.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) writes:
>>When I reboot the bridgecard (ctrl-alt-del) it reboots fine; however if I
>>try to do anything in the original AmigaDos window while the reboot is
>>taking place the CLI starts seeing the characters from the keyboard as if I
>>pressed ALT+that key. (I.E. I press 'a' and the CLI echos 'ALT-a'). If I
>>play with the ALT key and typing ALT-characters the problem goes away.
>>The problem doesn't seem to show up on customs screens (I.E. I currently
>>have a WB screen, with the PCwindow and the AmigaDos window, and a second
>>screen. The problem occured in the AmigaDos window and did not occur with
>>the second screen.).
>
>I have the same problem (if not similar).  I run the bridgecard with
>run pcwindow color and some times, probably after a CTRL-ALT-DEL reset of the
>PC come to think of it, that when returning to the Amiga side, I get no
>response out of any keys that I press.  LEFT-AMIGA ESC won't get me a newcli
>when it used to.

I played some more and got the same problem. Typing ^\ (the console
end-of-input character) fixes it. For some reason something (pcwindow
probably) is screwing up something (perhaps with the keyboard/console
handler).

	fred