Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@freebsd.org To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are DELAY()'s of keyboard driver insufficient?? Message-ID: <199509110658.XAA11236@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199509110550.OAA06548@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> from "HOSOKAWA Tatsumi" at Sep 11, 95 02:50:25 pm
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In reply to HOSOKAWA Tatsumi who wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I remember that somebody reported on this mailing list or
> comp.unix.freebsd.misc about the starnge behavior of the keyboard.
> The problem is that the keyboard hangs up when we're using X on some
> machines.
>
> In fact, I have the same problem on my desktop machine (P5-133, 16M,
> No-brand 84 Keyboard, S3-964) and another machine on computing center
> of our University (P5-90, 48M, No-brand 101 Keyboard, S3-928). When
> I'm using XFree86 and AccelX on this machine, the keyboard suddenly
> hangs up. The keyboard comes back when I kill the X server by
> destroying the login window with the mouse. This problem happens when
> I using modifier keys frequently, especially on using emacs.
>
> Someone followed to the article, and wrote that this problem may be
> the misconfiguration of the window manager, but I'm using the same
> ".twmrc" and ".fvwmrc" on other FreeBSD machines (DX4-75, 20M, Laptop,
> C&T65535 and P5-90, 32M, No-brand 84 Keyboard, Mach64) and it works
> fine. Moreover, this problem happens both on XFree86 and AccelX. So,
> this problem is not the miscofiguration of window manager and/or the
> bugs of the X servers.
Hmm, it almost sounds as if our DELAY() function is not stable on
fast hardware ??
Bruce ??
Anyway I have no problem with raising the delays, I just would like
to know why ??
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