Subject: kern/5298: wscons gets caps wrong on US ASCII PC keyboards
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@bishop.nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/15/1998 18:00:41
>Number: 5298
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: wscons gets caps wrong on US ASCII PC keyboards
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Apr 15 21:35:01 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Organization:
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility - NASA Ames
>Release: NetBSD 1.3E, April 15, 1998
>Environment:
Digital AlphaStation 600 5/333 with US ASCII keyboard and TGA2 display
Also appears on a NetBSD/i386 system if configured for wscons.
System: NetBSD bishop 1.3E NetBSD 1.3E (BISHOP) #323: Wed Apr 8 12:42:08 PDT 1998 thorpej@bishop:/tmp_mnt/dracul/u5/netbsd/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/BISHOP alpha
>Description:
Since switching to the new wscons console code, caps on my
AlphaStation 600 are ... wrong. I built a wscons kernel for
my PPro devel system, and noticed the same problem there, as
well.
>How-To-Repeat:
On a US ASCII keyboard, the following key sequence:
QWERTYUIOP ASDFGHJKL ZXCVBNM<>
appears as:
QWESUYUIOQ ASEGGIKKM [YCWCOM<>
when typed using the right or left shift key. If typed when CAPS-LOCK
is set rather than using the right or left shift key, the key sequence
works as expected.
>Fix:
Dunno... I don't know if it's a bug in the pckbd driver or in
the wskbd driver, either.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: