dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) (01/25/91)
G'day. I'm almost sure I've seen this question posted before, but I've never seen an answer. My Amiga has recently developed a sporadic problem with its string requestors. What happens is that I'll press a key, and it will just REPPPPPPPPPPPEAT very very quickly. Pressing another key stops the repeat, but 'backspace' seems to take forever to start deleting characters (Amiga-X works instantly though). I mostly notice this happening in the string requestors for Cygnus Ed, [since I use CED a lot] but I've seen other programs do it (Quarterback, Mandelblitz). I have an A2500 with 2090a disk controller, GVP 30Mhz 68030/68882, 4Mb 32 bit memory, 4Mb 16 bit memory on an 8Up! board, 1Mb chip, Fat agnus, ASDG dual serial board, and a 'cherry' keyboard (with the normal key sized function keys, and red topped 'Amiga' keys.) I'm running under Workbench 1.3.2 with MyMenu, PopupMenu, Popcli, Arexx, Ced and some AmigaUUCP stuff running/resident. Any hints as to what my problem may be? Dac _l _ _ // Andrew Clayton. Canberra, Australia. I Post . (_](_l(_ \X/ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac . . I am. -------- I cannot send or receive email. Not to anyone at all. Not even you.
s1013734@usage.csd.oz (Peter Urbanec,5SK,6621322,6621322) (02/12/91)
From article <18947c0a.ARN275b@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au>, by dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton): > > I have an A2500 with 2090a disk controller, GVP 30Mhz 68030/68882, 4Mb 32 bit > memory, 4Mb 16 bit memory on an 8Up! board, 1Mb chip, Fat agnus, ASDG dual > serial board, and a 'cherry' keyboard (with the normal key sized function > keys, and red topped 'Amiga' keys.) I'm running under Workbench 1.3.2 with > MyMenu, PopupMenu, Popcli, Arexx, Ced and some AmigaUUCP stuff > running/resident. > > Any hints as to what my problem may be? > I had the same problem when I started using SetCPU to put my ROM in 32-bit RAM. The solution is quite simple. All you have to do is use the KEYPATCH option with SetCPU. The problem is with Cherry keyboards. (Me thinks it's bad serial frequency on the keyboard data transmit line.) This fixed my problem about 6 months ago and I lived ever happily after. /\ / \ /----\ / \ miga, because it's the only computer that does it ALL. Peter Urbanec - s1013734@spectrum.unsw.oz.au University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.