Re: A minor error

Brian Blackmore (bnb@gryphon.demon.co.uk)
24 Mar 1996 17:22:21 -0000

Skunk Schouten <skunky@skunky.atlcom.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
>Yes, this is a bug. It seems to happen when the keyboard spews things
>too fast for the kernel to handle. Unfortunately, with the more recent
>kernels, that means pressing the up and down arrow keys in the shell too
>fast gives me keyboard errors. Back down to 1.3.57, and I can hold the
>keys down and not get an error, with anything from about .65 to .76
>(haven't tried .77 yet, got a job and all) I have to sit and press keys
>one at a time. I am a lazy typist and make quite a bit of use of bash's
>command history......... With the newer kernels, it's useless, my screen
>fills up with Keyboard error and Socket destroy delayed, and I can't see
>what I'm doing. (:

I'm not sure this is a speed problem, even with my mega slow hardware
(386SX 16Mhz) only certain key combinations cause this problem eg

Alt+F3+F4 Causes the problem
Left+Right+Up Causes the problem
Alt+F2+F3+F5+F6+F7 Causes no problems at all
Left+Right+Down Causes no problems at all

This seems to have been the case for many kernels, possibly all the
way back to 1.0.8 (the first kernel I ever tried) and certainly to 1.3.3?

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Brian Blackmore                         http://www.wonderland.org/~eternal/