Bug 112217

Summary: (kbdmux) Japanese 106/109 USB keyboard ignores backslash/underscore
Product: Base System Reporter: Maho Nakata <maho>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 6.2-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Maho Nakata freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-04-28 22:50:02 UTC 
According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025532.html

> After upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.1, backslash/underscore key on
> Japanese 106/109 keyboard, which resides left of Rshift key, cannot be
> used any more.
> 
> Without kbdmux, the key works well.
> 
> Japanese 106/109 PS/2 keyborad has no problem. This problem is USB only.
>

Fix: In http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025532.html
patch has been attached. Just copy and pasted here. It worked for me, too.
How-To-Repeat: Obtain Japanese 106/109 USB keyboard and try to type
backslash/underscore key just the left of right shift key.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-04-29 00:01:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Duplicate of kern/112214.