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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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