From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 09:38:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E1216A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [69.58.128.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE2C43FF5 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nospam@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from [69.58.129.70] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.local) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A3I5K-0007HE-00; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:38:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:38:17 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton To: David Gilbert Message-Id: <20030927113817.75cb377f.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <16245.45901.608214.604029@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16244.53594.942762.784390@canoe.dclg.ca> <20030927115306.R34638@woozle.rinet.ru> <16245.45901.608214.604029@canoe.dclg.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard thoughts. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:38:35 -0000 On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:57:01 -0400 David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Morozovsky writes: > > Dmitry> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, David Gilbert wrote: > DG> I acquired my first motherboard that does not have ps/2 keyboard > DG> and mouse connectors on it this week. It's a funny thing > DG> ... because a keyboard connector seems to be all it doesn't have. > DG> It has 6 ide channels, digital audio, firewire and 6 USB ports. > > Dmitry> Out of curiosity, who is the vendor and what is model no? > > I was going for cheap. I found a Belkin keyboard at the local shop > for $28 Cdn. I don't remember a model number on it, but other than > having both USB and ps/2 connectors, it was a fairly normal keyboard. > > Actually... it sucks in one way. I'm a fairly quick touch typist, but > I've never trained on an underwood. This belkin seems to simulate the > underwood in that if you arn't careful enough to raise your fingers > off a key before pressing the next, you get extra characters on the > screen. David, The extra characters on the screen may have something to do with this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57273 Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com