[ltp] double keystrokes and NIC errors

[Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: d.lj [mailto:jdl@xdv.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:47 AM
> 
> i m curious if these are experienced by other users of equivalent h/w.
> which is: R40 - 2722 DG1

I have a R40 - 2722-3YU

> sometimes my keyboard fires double events (on single press). 
> this can be
> quite annoying at times. would it make sense to have the keyboard
> changed by ibm service or is there a soft solution (X 
> options) i.e. some
> minimum delay that has to pass between single strokes for them to be
> accepted?

I haven't experienced this problem. If it only happens with a key or a couple of keys, then the "switches" for those keys may be bad - you may have to change the keyboard. If it happens for every key, then something it's something else.

There is a keyboard config area in KDE where you can specify if the keyboard should repeat or not. Though I don't know exactly what they mean, you can also specify "sticky keys", "slow keys", and "bounce keys".

On a loosely related topic, what does it mean if the caps-lock light keeps on blinking?

> yesterday i was trying to copy a huge file (>2GB) from a mac 
> G4 desktop
> running osx onto the laptop using the onboard ethernet 
> interface (tried
> both drivers e100, eepro100) which resulted in the impressive transfer
> rate of, yeah, about 1k/s. this is independent of the protocol being
> used i.e. the same using nfs, afp, ftp, scp, http, etcp and 
> only occurs
> between these two specific machines, so transfers from each of them to
> different locations on the same lan work just fine. also 
> tried different
> cables. didnt look at it on tcpdump though. any ideas?

For some reason they have problems talking to each other. It'd be interesting to know if the low rate is due to packets lost/retransmission, or because the protocols are reducing the rate.

T.