From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com.au>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: keyboard problems
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:17:24 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14729.3700.660339.484633@argo.linuxcare.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <news2mail-8m5oaq$6tj$3@mate.bln.innominate.de>
Thomas Graichen writes:
>
> i have a little keyboard problem on my blueberry imac with the
> standard usb keyboard: whenever i type something very quickly
> followed by space the typed in will be repeated before the
> space (best example: i want to type "cd " and get "cdcd ")
> - this gets a bit annoying - does anybody have the same
> problem (or even a fix for it) ? - is it more a soft-
> wareproblem (i hope :-) or maybe a hardwareproblem ?
> (i had it on all kernels from 2.2.x to 2.4.0-testx)
It's simply a bug in the USB keyboard driver. It just means that the
driver isn't coping with the "overflow" code that the keyboard sends
when it has too many keys depressed at once.
--
Paul Mackerras, Senior Open Source Researcher, Linuxcare, Inc.
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paulus@linuxcare.com.au, http://www.linuxcare.com.au/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-03 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-01 5:48 keyboard problems Thomas Graichen
2000-08-01 20:37 ` Nelson Abramson
2000-08-02 0:07 ` David A. Gatwood
2000-08-02 3:53 ` USB keyboard problems - cdcd Hollis Blanchard
2000-08-03 6:17 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2000-08-04 12:31 ` keyboard problems Thomas Graichen
[not found] <8m5oaq$6tj$3@mate.bln.innominate.de>
2000-08-01 19:49 ` Thomas Graichen
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