[coreboot] keyboard tricks in SimNOW?

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 19:01:09 CEST 2008



> -----Original Message-----
> From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org]
> 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





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