> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Jordan Crouse > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:54 AM > To: Myles Watson > Cc: 'Coreboot' > Subject: Re: [coreboot] keyboard tricks in SimNOW? > > On 03/10/08 10:48 -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > > I found a comment in the Serengeti DTS that says it would be nice to > look at > > an lspci. I thought "I can do that pretty easily." > > > > I booted a DSL 4.3 CD with the original BIOS and the keyboard doesn't > seem > > to work. I tried the paste text command and couldn't get that to work > > either. Each keypress and release is logged correctly by the simulator, > but > > somehow gets lost. > > > > I booted with a coreboot + LAB kernel, but there are weird key problems > > there too. Even though each key shows up correctly in the shell, only a > > random mix of the characters get passed to the shell (most of the times > > every other character.) I was able to do an ls /dev/* by typing llss > > //ddeevv//**, which passed the command once with Enter, then again with > the > > next Enter. > > > > Is there a trick to this? I'm tried it on SimNOW 4.4.1pub 4.4.2pub and > > 4.4.4pub. > > Hmm - I don't know if there is a trick for that or not. I booted a > Ubuntu rootfs the other day, and it seemed to work okay, I'll try > to play around and see if I can break it. I'll send your message > on to the SimNow team to see if they recognize the problem. > > I have noticed, however, that the SimNow GUI doesn't take kindly > if I use ctrl-alt-<arrow> to switch workspaces - something about the > control characters seems to confuse it. Perhaps you are hitting > something similar.
I habitually use ctrl-alt-tab for window switching. I'll try to control my fingers and see if that helps. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
