Re: USB Keyboards for x86/uhci in 2.4- kernels?

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

blc@q.dyndns.org said:
>   In BIOS my USB keyboard works really poorly - it almost seems
> scancodes get dropped left and right.  Ok, so I don't mind too much,
> i'm sure BIOS has a very limited driver.  After booting Microsoft's
> offerring, it would work fine after it installs its driver. I also
> tried this same keyboard on a HPUX Visualize C3600 workstation and it
> also works nicely.

> However linux would never fix  this "scancode drop" syndrome even
> after loading the hid or usbkbd driver. 

I'm using a USB keyboard (on x86/uhci) without too much trouble.
 
Occasionally I seem to miss a key release event, causing the thing to 
autorepeat until I hit the key and release it again.

Also, the behaviour on pressing multiple keys simultaneously seems to be 
strange - 'grep' tends to come out as 'grerp' and 'mount' as 'mouunt' if I 
type them fast enough. That may simply be the keyboard's fault though.

--
dwmw2


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