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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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