I finally managed to get a VMS installation running, and I find to my horror that VMS 7.2's DeathWindows runtime environment is even worse
than T64U's. The endless repeat is there, with the additional
pathology of Shift becoming delete, which is as far as I got before
I virtually ran screaming from the room.
However, VMS' runtime console mode (in which the console is handled
by a terminal driver rather than an X driver) has no problem at all
with this repeating rubbish.
I'm a bit disheartened (putting it mildly) that T64U and VMS DW didn't
manage to get right what Linux and FreeBSD did.
Case closed, alas.
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>
> The problem: With the keyboard and mouse connected to an
> Alpha (2100A and AlphaStation 200 both exhibit this) through
> a Black Box switch, the SRM console behaves fine but T64U
> thinks each key pressed is on autorepeat until Shift or CTRL
> is pressed, in both single-user shell and X GUI modes.
>
> This is definitely an interaction between T64U and the
> Black Box switch; hooking the keyboard up directly results
> in normal behaviour at both SRM and T64U levels.
>
> WNT 4.0, FreeBSD 2.2.7 and 3.0, and Red Hat Linux all have
> no problem. I'm going to check one more OS -- OpenVMS/Alpha --
> before I summarise this as being a deficiency in the T64U
> software.
> --
> #ken P-)}
>
> Ken Coar <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
> Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>
> "Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/ASFD/>
--
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>
"Apache Server for Dummies" <http://ASFD.MeepZor.Com/>
Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 22:20:18 NZST