Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:55:23 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Keyboard errors (WAS Re: A minor error) |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > On 22 Mar 1996, Brian Blackmore wrote: > > > Pressing Alt+F3+F4 consistantly gives a "Keyboard Error" (I noticed it > > > when console switching rather rapidly) it seems to have been like this > > > ever since time began and happens with no other key combination I can > > > find. Could possibly cause problems with a game of some kind and > > > might help spot a bug elsewhere? > > > > Can't reproduce this. I pressed Alt+F3+F4 on our test server (P75, 32MB > > RAM, ASUSTeK MB) and nothing happens - it just sits there staring at me > > (you know what I mean). After, I can still do everything normally. Maybe > > bad keyboard / KB controller chip? That'd be my best guess on that one. > > I can't get that particular error either with Alt+F3+F4 on either of the two > systems I tried, but I've noticed that different keyboards are picky about > different things. > > In general, it's quite easy to get Linux to complain about a "keyboard > error" if you mash several keys at once. On my system, this includes > pressing all four arrow keys simultaneously, which could theoretically be > something someone might want to do in a video game. > Hmm, after some experimentation, It seems that I can produce a keyboard error very easly, it basically goes find a key combination that dosent print anything to the screen, and hold it. When you press (and hold) a combination, you usally get the last key pressed repeated, Ie pressing (and holding) a b c (in that order), I get 'abccccccccccc', but with d as well I get 'abckeyboard error' (the keyboard error is only on the console, and goes away with a ^L). Bryn PS So the Alt-F3-F4 one is press, and hold them. -- PGP key pass phrase forgoten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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