Re: [PLUG] Keyboard Strangeness

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:41:28AM -0500, Doug Crompton wrote:
> My server has been up for over a year without a reboot. 99.9% of the
> time I log in via SSH on my local network. Just recently when I
> attempted to login on the 'real - plugged into the PS2 connector'
> keyboard I get strange characters like ^g when I hit g and it is
> basically unusable. I cannot login. I tried killing the term but it
> stays the same. It also seems the other virtual sessions are hosed
> (F2,F3, etc.) if it even switches to them.

I assume you've confirmed that the control key wasn't suck in a depressed
position?  You may also want to try "loadkeys us" or "loadkeys emacs2" to
reset the keyboard map.

-mct

-- 
perl -e'$u="\4\5\6";sub H{8*($_[1]%79)+($_[0]%8)}sub G{vec$u,H(@_),1}sub S{vec
($n,H(@_),1)=$_[2]}$_=q^{P`clear`;for$iX){PG($iY)?"O":" "forX8);P"\n"}for$iX){
forX8){$c=scalar grep{G@$_}[$i-1Y-1Z-1YZ-1Y+1ZY-1ZY+1Z+1Y-1Z+1YZ+1Y+1];S$iY,G(
$iY)?$c=~/[23]/?1:0:$c==3?1:0}}$u=$n;select$M,$C,$T,.2;redo}^;s/Z/],[\$i/g;s/Y
/,\$_/xg;s/X/(0..7/g;s/P/print+/g;eval' #     Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>
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