Re: [MiNT] No keyboard with GEM=ROM

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Am 11.09.2010, 13:56 Uhr, schrieb Vincent Rivière  
<vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:

> Hello.
>
> If I put GEM=ROM in MINT.CNF, FreeMiNT runs the ROM AES, as expected.
> However, the keyboard does not work in the AES. For example, we can't  
> type anything in the New Folder dialog, and the keyboard shortcuts does  
> not work...
>
> However, the keyboard works fine in textmode programs running on the  
> BIOS console.
>
> Furthermore, if you type some characters while you are on the desktop,  
> then you run some interactive textmode program such as bash, you will  
> see your characters on the bash command line ! It seems that the  
> keystrokes are ignored and buffered while in GEM applications, then they  
> appear after switching to textmode.
>
> I have checked this behaviour on ARAnyM and the latest FreeMiNT  
> snapshot, with both EmuTOS and TOS 4.04.

The same happens on ROM-GEM on a real TT. The reason is in keyboard.c: No  
interrupt, no keyboard. There is an old acc (nohog.acc by E. Smith) that  
calls yield() periodically. When this is installed, keyboard should work.  
I  patched my kernel to let GEM run in single-task-mode, and keyboard  
works there too, but no repeat, just like pure-debugger.


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Helmut Karlowski