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From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Keyboards and Xenix
Message-ID: <532@vector.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 11:45:34 GMT
References: <1280@bc-cis.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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In article <1280@bc-cis.UUCP> raanan@bc-cis.UUCP (Raanan Herrmann) writes:
>	The problem: the keyboard locks from time to time (mostly at the
>"login:" prompt from getty) and to unlock the keyboard, he has to unplug 
>the keyboard

In release 2.2.1, the release notes section 3.5 talk about this problem.
The fix described is to patch the xenix kernal with adb and set "ledspresent"
to zero.  This is supposed to cure keyboard lockup, but unfortunately it
also disables the keyboard LED's.

I run into this problem every couple of days on my ALR system with a
Keytronics keyboard.  I haven't tried the patch, because I'm unwilling
to give up the LED's.  This is kind of unfortunate, seeing that this
Keytronics is one of the "industry standard" keyboards.
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