Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:53:49 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: Input issues - key down with no key up |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, John Bradford wrote:
> > What are the known problems with mode #3, then? > > It's poorly implemented by a lot of keyboards.
Specifically, it wasn't used much at the beginning (see e.g. when we came to trying it -- it's already ~15 years since it was introduced) and then the crapware era began and some manufacturers stopped taking care of less commonly used standard functionality.
> Has anybody actually verified that the keyboards that are presenting > the problem in quesiton are not specifically identifyable by their ID > string, or some other means - E.G. they only exist on specific, known > laptops?
I recall testing an i486 laptop around 1996 and not only it accepted switching mode to #3, but it reported it as being active then as well. Yet it generated #2 codes regardless...
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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