On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:18:10 +0200
"Carlos E. R."
On 2014-10-05 15:34, jdebert wrote:
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:34:03 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
There are some keyboards, used typically for gaming, that can cache keypresses internally, and also accept many simultaneous keys.
I do not believe it's a keyboard. What you describe would not scramble the entered text under this specific condition.
And note, the text is obviously scrambled, like a word jumble, not random noise and there are no characters dropped, which is what typically occur if what you say is true.
No, with a keyboard of the type I describe no letters are lost, but they may be in the "wrong" order from what you expect (like jdd hints, which also happens to me).
Huh?
Look, pressing with an horizontal stick on mine:
asdgfh asdgfh asdgfh asdgfh
Always the same. The "jkl" letters that I also press get lost, so it apparently can only transmit 6 letters from the same row.
Trying to press letters from two rows, simultaneously, with a thicker rod, I get:
aqswdegftr aqswde aqswdetr aqswdegft aqswde aqswde
Now there is some variance, in number and content. But you see the ordering is always the same.
You've simulated a cat resting on a keyboard! But fortunately I don't use a cat. I use my fingers. (^_^)
So you see, if I type "too" fast, no letters are lost, but they may not appear in the order they "should". They appear in the real order they were pressed; but if they were simultaneously pressed, then the keyboard sends them by keyboard position order. The keyboard decides, not me.
I've already said that this occurs in one specific situation. I didn't say it happens in other situations. And it apparently has nothing to do with bash, although it occurs most frequently with it. But it still happens in the same situation regardless. And before you blame my typing again, will repeat again that I am absolutely certain I did not type it in that way. While I type way too fast for typewriters and apparently for msword and openoffice as well, bash and the others are not as slow and do not exhibit the same problem.
I don't know if this relates to your problem or not, though.
I doubt it. I've seen buffer problems where characters beginning or ending are dropped and very rarely where half the buffer is transposed with the other half but I've not seen this before. And, yes, I've seen bad keyboards and cables produce characters at random or lose characters but never have I seen such result in a literal scrambling of text entered. jd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org