From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <14729.3700.660339.484633@argo.linuxcare.com.au> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:17:24 +1000 (EST) To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: keyboard problems In-Reply-To: References: Reply-To: paulus@linuxcare.com.au Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. +61 2 6262 8990 tel, +61 2 6262 8991 fax paulus@linuxcare.com.au, http://www.linuxcare.com.au/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/