transformer keyboard problems

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3 total messages Started by Arnd Merlevede Mon, 03 Dec 1990 04:06

#7129

Author: Arnd Merlevede
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 04:06

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anybody out there who has got a solution to the following problem ?  :

my amiga gets stuck on booting msdos when its waiting for something
on the keyboard.  this problem occurs reportedly only on some keyboards.
supposedly the low level keyboard access routines dont wait long enough.

any suggestion ?

thanx  arnd merlevede


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 reply to : admerlev@faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

Re: transformer keyboard problems

#7250

Author: Bill Seymour
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 17:54

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In article <3305@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> admerlev@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede ) writes:
:anybody out there who has got a solution to the following problem ?  :
:
:my amiga gets stuck on booting msdos when its waiting for something
:on the keyboard.  this problem occurs reportedly only on some keyboards.
:supposedly the low level keyboard access routines dont wait long enough.
:
:any suggestion ?
:
:thanx  arnd merlevede
:
: reply to : admerlev@faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

	Couple of possiblities... Get a new keyboard, the only ones that had
this problem were those real early Cherry keyboards. The newer HiTek keyboards
or the Northgate Ultra don't have the problem. Or, if you have a 2620 or 2630
installed, SetCPU has a keyboard patch routine that can be enabled with the MMU.
I haven't tried this with the Transformer, and I know you have to disbale the
caching and burst modes to use Transformer, but it may work... :-)

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Re: transformer keyboard problems

#7327

Author: DXB132
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 18:25

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In article <1990Dec6.175420.15736@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
says:

>:my amiga gets stuck on booting msdos when its waiting for something
>:on the keyboard.  this problem occurs reportedly only on some keyboards.
>:supposedly the low level keyboard access routines dont wait long enough.
>:

>        Couple of possiblities... Get a new keyboard, the only ones that had
>this problem were those real early Cherry keyboards. The newer HiTek keyboards

I have one of those real early Cherry keyboards. :-)
I do encounter a program that screws up the keyboard handshake from time to
time, but I've always been able to patch the program to fix the problem.
It should be noted that not all keyboards are the same, and you MUST abide
by the specifications in the hardware manual (unless you want your program to
work ONLY on Amiga 500s like some of those stupid programmers out there that
never even heard of hard drives...:-))

-- Dan Babcock

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