On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone here have a USB Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite Mk 2 keyboard?
>
> On connecting to my 2.4.18 Linux system I find that it works great,
> except that certain triples of keys produce four characters instead of
> three when typed in rapid succession. This happens under XFree86 and
> also at a tty. For example, typing `swa' rapidly produces `swaw'.
What is the event interface (dev/input/eventX) showing for this type of input?
> Further investigation revealed that only certain combination of keys
> exhibit the problem. More examples are
>
> keys produces
> rty rtty
> yui yuui
> tyu tyuy
> swa swaw
> jhg jhgh
>
> But other won't show the problem, e.g. `zxc', `asd', and `qwe'.
>
> My theory is that usbkbd.o doesn't cope with ErrorRollover which is
> being generated, unlike hid.o which didn't used to but does now.
Err, how do you reconcile that with only seeing it on some keys?
BTW: usbkbd isn't meant for real work. You should use full HID.
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