From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 1:21:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles510.castles.com [208.214.165.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AC115AB9 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 01:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA17082; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 01:13:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909060813.BAA17082@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kevin Day 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???) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 03:13:06 CDT." <199909060813.DAA51212@celery.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:13:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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