From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfVAA-0000Cy-5Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:44:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfVA5-00007q-1b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:44:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37244 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfVA4-00007Y-Rb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:44:20 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com ([209.85.220.211]:61182) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MfVA4-0007b9-5N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:44:20 -0400 Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so1505320fxm.34 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:44:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20090823124410.GA30789@shareable.org> <53e878390908231020s32575288jf2dd1450bae241c9@mail.gmail.com> <20090823215558.GA9093@shareable.org> <53e878390908231554o39fb1700n8b495e6c1089fc6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:44:19 +0200 Message-ID: <53e878390908240144v4c99fb89i7ac204356128d38f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 1] Fix for DOS keyboard problems From: Stefan Ring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: malc Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 2009/8/24 malc : > There's other DOS application that exhibits erroneous keyboard > beahviour and i was curious whether your hack "fixes" it too (alas > it doesn't) - Command and Conquer, the demo can be found at: > > http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/command-and-conquer/ > > Keyboard is dysfunctional in both the setup and the game. What i'm > wondering now if this is a indeed pckbd or BIOS problem, but Bochs > where the former can be verified refuses to work on my machines, > perhaps someone could give it a try and report here? I will try to run C&C in Bochs, and I'm definitely not surprised that my hack doesn't fix that as I'm almost 100% certain that it does its own keyboard processing and bypasses the BIOS entirely (as virtually all games do).