Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:15:40 +0100
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Message-Id: <200308161515.h7GFFeUS000159@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
To: jamie@shareable.org, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up
Cc: aebr@win.tue.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au,
       vojtech@suse.cz
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> > > > The PS/2 keyboard protocol is utterly absurd.
> > > Yep. It's a dozen or more years of hack upon a hack.
> >  Well, mode #3 with no translation in the i8042 looks quite sanely. 
> What are the known problems with mode #3, then?

It's poorly implemented by a lot of keyboards.

Has anybody actually verified that the keyboards that are presenting
the problem in quesiton are not specifically identifyable by their ID
string, or some other means - E.G. they only exist on specific, known
laptops?

My keyboard has a distinct ID, and works fine in set 3, but isn't
detected as set 3 capable.  I'll have to make a patch some time...

John
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