USB keyboard thoughts.

[Stephen Hilton]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:57:01 -0400
David Gilbert <dgilbert at dclg.ca> wrote:

> >>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> writes:
> 
> Dmitry> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, David Gilbert wrote:
> DG> I acquired my first motherboard that does not have ps/2 keyboard
> DG> and mouse connectors on it this week.  It's a funny thing
> DG> ... because a keyboard connector seems to be all it doesn't have.
> DG> It has 6 ide channels, digital audio, firewire and 6 USB ports.
> 
> Dmitry> Out of curiosity, who is the vendor and what is model no?
> 
> I was going for cheap.  I found a Belkin keyboard at the local shop
> for $28 Cdn.  I don't remember a model number on it, but other than
> having both USB and ps/2 connectors, it was a fairly normal keyboard.
> 
> Actually... it sucks in one way.  I'm a fairly quick touch typist, but
> I've never trained on an underwood.  This belkin seems to simulate the
> underwood in that if you arn't careful enough to raise your fingers
> off a key before pressing the next, you get extra characters on the
> screen.

David,

The extra characters on the screen may have something to do with 
this:

 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57273


Regards,


Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com