From: "Robert E. Brose II" <bob@jriver.com>
To: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:24:15 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199907282124.QAA06117@jriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199907280146.LAA01847@tango.anu.edu.au> from Paul Mackerras at "Jul 28, 1999 11:46:35 am"
User Paul Mackerras says:
> Robert Brose <bob@jriver.com> wrote:
>
> > 1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
> > prompt, it fairly
> > regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
>
> This is a problem in the USB keyboard driver, where it doesn't handle
> the `key rollover error' keycode correctly. The iMac keyboard gives
> this keycode if you press more than 2 keys (other than modifiers) at
> once.
Aha, I am definitely a N-Key rollover person!
> > If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
> > The bus mouse
> > protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
> > replace it with
> > yet.
>
> Use "IMPS/2" (or "imps2" for gpm).
Works well but if I pick up a window and move it around quickly a lot I
can make the mouse cursor go bye-bye.
Bob
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-27 2:58 usb mouse in 2.2.10 Robert Brose
1999-07-27 4:27 ` Brad Midgley
1999-07-28 1:46 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-07-28 21:24 ` Robert E. Brose II [this message]
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