From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 6 00:07:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A66106566B for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shoesoft@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C8018FC13 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Sep 2009 00:07:08 -0000 Received: from 85-127-83-116.dynamic.xdsl-line.inode.at (EHLO taxman.pepperland) [85.127.83.116] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 06 Sep 2009 02:07:08 +0200 X-Authenticated: #16703784 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+paBtJ+3epvBsiNG/DcbkCSSmm7adXfyZ4AeZzSp +iJIE+9u9N4YRc From: Stefan Ehmann To: Bruce Cran Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 02:07:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA4; KDE/4.3.1; i386; ; ) References: <200909051806.07692.hselasky@c2i.net> <20090905182929.GB2829@hoeg.nl> <20090905200653.000057c8@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20090905200653.000057c8@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909060207.06700.shoesoft@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Cc: Ed Schouten , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: ukbd: short freeze when activating LEDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:07:11 -0000 On Saturday 05 September 2009 21:06:53 Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:29:29 +0200 > > Ed Schouten wrote: > > * Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 September 2009 16:32:55 Stefan Ehmann wrote: > > > > Whenever I press capslock/numlock, the system shortly (< 0.5 ms) > > > > freezes. > > > > > > It might also be because the USB keyboard driver is using Giant, > > > which can be congested. > > > > For half a second? I experience the same issue. I also have the same > > issue with the Syscons VGA driver when switching windows. Some time > > ago I talked about this with some other people and it may be possible > > it has something to do with SMIs. Not sure... > > Half a millisecond or, as reported in another message, 100us :) > I suspect the OP probably did mean 0.5s, a pause which someone can both > see and hear. > Oops. Of course you're right. For some reason I consistently wrote ms instead of seconds. It's a noticable delay for humans :)