[coreboot] keyboard tricks in SimNOW?

[Jordan Crouse]

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.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.