Subject: Re: Ultra1 key repeats
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Ivan Eriksen <Ivan.Eriksen@uni-c.dk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/04/2001 19:04:01
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Steven Grunza wrote:

> I've load the snapshot from 20010114 onto my Integrix Ultra1 clone and
> have noticed the keyboard starts acting strange after a while.  The last
> key pressed repeats.  This will continue until the machine is rebooted.
> Has anyone else noticed this?

I've seen the problem on my Ultra 5 box running the same snapshot as you.
I got the following answer from Eduardo:
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Yes, this is a known problem.  No, there is no solution for it
yet.  It is probably due to interrupt issues while using the
PROM for console output, since it does not happen when running
X11.

Possible solutions to the problem would be:

        Get X11 working on the U5's VGA card.

        Get wscons/rastercons working on U5s.

        Muck around with interrupt priorities.

Right now the openfirmware() call does the equivalent of
splimp().  You could try increasing it to splhigh(), or
lowering it to spltty() or getting rid of it entirely and
see if that helps the problem.
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