Re: [MiNT] FreeMiNT initial key stuck

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 23:16 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> You certainly experienced that. You start FreeMiNT on your favorite machine 
> (or emulator). You run some software requiring the keyboard, but when you 
> type something, a bad character is typed several times instead. This problem 
> starts when booting FreeMiNT, and never stop. To get rid of this bug, you 
> have to reboot and hope this will not happen again.
> 
> I recently made a minimal ARAnyM setup, in order to test the kernel and MiNT 
> software in the simplest environment. It boots the FreeMiNT kernel then run 
> bash on the console. With this setup, I restart ARAnyM a lot of times. And 
> maybe 30% of the time (if not 50%) I get this bug. It is extremely annoying, 
> so decided to do anything to fix it definitely.
> 
> This bug is caused neither by EmuTOS, neither by ARAnyM. I made a lot of 
> tests, and Helmut managed to reproduce it on his TT.
> 
> Basically, here is what happens. If a key is hold at the beginning of 
> FreeMiNT startup, the bug is triggered. Then, in any MiNT application, if 
> you type any key, _the initial key_ hold at MiNT startup is repeated several 
> times.
> 
> In standard MiNT setups, this can happen from EmuTOS welcome screen if you 
> hold a key too long.
> I made a detailed description here:
> http://srv1.trusted.cz:4433/pipermail/cz-bobek-lists-aranym-user/2009-September/004336.html
> 
> Then Helmut proposed another simple procedure:
> http://srv1.trusted.cz:4433/pipermail/cz-bobek-lists-aranym-user/2009-September/004398.html
> Basically, it requires going into the MiNT boot menu and exit by holding the 
> Return key 2 or 3 seconds.
> 
> So it seems the bug is triggered just after the MiNT boot menu, if a key is 
> hold down at that time.
> 
> I really hope we will be able to find the cause of this bug and fix it.
> 
> NB: Alan, this happens with your FreeMiNT-enhancements kernel, too.

Are you using the binaries I uploaded ? or the CVS for
freemint-enhancements ?

Alan.