In message <m0sgWKW-000UTYC@hcswork.hcs.de>, Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
> 
> These keyboard problems are totally frustrating, even more as i am not able
> to reproduce any of them over here. It seems as if the main device involved
> is the 8042 keyboard controller on the motherboard which seems to behave
> very strange in some implementations, the keyboard itself does play a role,
> but it seems to be not that important than the 8042.
> 

Hmm, I had a keyboard (el cheapo), that did give me LED TIMEOUTs under
NetBSD-1.0/i386.  I swapped it with a better one (RT6855T+ ???), and have
not seen anything complaining about it yet.

A solution (hack), might be to have a static variable that gets incremented
every time the LEDs TIMEOUT.  After a suitable amount of time, turn the
warnings off.  It's a hack, but...

Oh, yeah, another thing that I saw happening with the old keyboard, was that
when I would get out of wfw3.11 (shudder), the response from the keyboard was
*very* slow.  It felt as if the CPU was taking a huge number of interrupts
repeatedly.

--Toby.
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