From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCQp-0004fx-Gs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:44:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCQi-0004cE-IZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:44:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55109 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCQg-0004bb-5Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:44:15 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:53806) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfCQf-0005q6-Mg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:44:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:44:10 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 1] Fix for DOS keyboard problems Message-ID: <20090823124410.GA30789@shareable.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Ring Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Stefan Ring wrote: > The keyboard is still very unreliable when a keyboard driver is > loaded inside DOS (I assume that the keyboard driver completely > disables the BIOS handler). This behavior is also present without > my patch, and I personally don't care about it, so this should not > be an obstacle. Can you say a bit more about what your patch actually fixes? I've been using QEMU with several versions of MS-DOS and haven't noticed any keyboard problems. I even use various "halt-on-idle" idle programs, and haven't noticed any keyboard problems. So what behaviour does your patch fix? -- Jamie