When using the NumLock key (or for that matter, almost any key that has some
special significance to the system, ShiftLock or alt-F1), the vt hangs, and
doesn't respond to keys at all. The NumLock key has no effect other than
hanging everything. Other processes continue to run normally, the output of
a kernel compile scrolled by normally (or at least without abnormality that
would have been immediately obvious). The cure is to hit keys for a while,
it snaps out of it (or perhaps it just times out somewhere?), something like
LF or ctrl-alt-F1 seems to work best (not the kind of stuff I'd like to
experiment with: pre3 Oopsed on me later on, freezing everything). The keys
pressed get lost.
Looking at the possible culprit files I could think (.../drivers/char/vt.c,
.../drivers/char/console.c, .../drivers/char/consolemap.c changed), the only
differences I see from 2.1.36 are calls to macros that expand to empty here.
I'm stumped... but perhaps I'm just doing something radically stupid.
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