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Date:      Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:13:48 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        nick.hibma@jrc.it, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), A.Reilly@lake.com.au (Andrew Reilly), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???) 
Message-ID:  <199909060813.BAA17082@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 03:13:06 CDT." <199909060813.DAA51212@celery.dragondata.com> 

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> 
> I'll give that a try too. I do like having a USB keyboard, except for the
> fact that if the system is *very* busy, I tend to get some weird
> repetitions. I dunno if this'll happen under FreeBSD or not, but it's
> annoying.
> 
> (example, I start up ScanDisk, and a CPU eating program at the same time,
> and try to type... The quick ick ick brownnnnn fox jumpumped over erthe
> lazzzzzzzzzy ddddog)
> 
> I'll blame this on a Windowsism until I see otherwise. :)

I've seen this with FreeBSD as well; I put it down to a bug in the 
keyboard firmware, since the repeat occurs immediately (no delay after 
the keypress).  I think the first generation of USB keyboards are going 
to be about as reliable as the first generation of AT keyboards 
(bleagh!).

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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