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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Koftinoff <jeffk@awinc.com> writes:

    Jeff> Hello! I finally became a bona-fide paying executor/linux
    Jeff> user!  yay! You Ardi folks are doing a great job!

Thanks.

    Jeff> I have 1.99p5 for linux/X/ELF and linux/SVGA/elf.  I am
    Jeff> using Linux 1.2.13 elf with the ardi patch.  I have a Cirrus
    Jeff> logic card which svga supports.  486Dx2/66 with 20meg of
    Jeff> ram.

    Jeff> A funny thing happens with my keyboard with linux/SVGA....
    Jeff> In any application I use, If I press the '+' key (shift '=')
    Jeff> it displays a '(' character, and repeats it (about 3/second)
    Jeff> until I press another key.


    Jeff> '=' shows a repeating '9'.

This is actually an SVGAlib bug, I believe.  It appears that we get
the wrong key code for the "=+" key when the key is pressed, but that
we get the right one when it is released.  That confuses Executor,
since we get the keycode for a "9(" on the way down, so we think that
a '9' or '(' has been pressed, and then autorepeat kicks on and we
never see the key come back up.


    Jeff> Keypad '+' shows a '-', non repeating, Keypad '-' shows a
    Jeff> '*', non repeating Keypad '*' shows a '/', non repeating

Those are differences in the labelling of the PC keyboards vs. the
labelling of Mac keyboards.  Right now our KCHR resource maps them the
way they'd be mapped on a Mac keyboard.  We will probably change that
before 2.0 ships.

    Jeff> etc

    Jeff> I haven't tried all key combos.  All the keys work properly
    Jeff> from the console when not running Executor.

    Jeff> It doesn't happen in Executor for X.  Am I the only one with
    Jeff> this weird problem?

The numeric keypad differences should show up in X, to, I think.

    Jeff> BTW, I tried Pocket Forth, and it works quite well. I am
    Jeff> really impressed that it works, because you can do
    Jeff> inline-68k opcodes with it, as well as toolbox calls.

Thanks.  We enjoy impressing people.

    Jeff> Best Regards

    Jeff> -------------------------------------------------------
    Jeff> ---------- Jeff Koftinoff --- jeffk@awinc.com --------- ---
    Jeff> Internet Monitoring and Filtering Software --- ---
    Jeff> Multimedia and Embedded Systems Programming --- ---
    Jeff> http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/ ---
    Jeff> -------------------------------------------------------

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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