Hello!
> > Why do you think these are false positives? They usually report real
> > problems.
>
> Did you read my earlier posts?
> Users are seeing this *during boot*, before they've even pressed *ANY* keys.
> They're seeing it after pressing a *single* key.
If it is so (sorry for catching the thread in the middle), then it means
that there is either a bug in the keyboard driver, which should be fixed,
or a bug in the keyboard controller, which can have other side-effects
and so it should be at least reported.
> How on earth is "too many keys pressed" a useful message in this context?
I am not telling that the message has to stay intact -- it should be reworded
and rate-limited, but not hidden.
> Yes, maybe their keyboard is crap, but what is the user to do?
> Go buy a new laptop because someone else has a utopian view on how hardware should be?
No, just notice that his hardware is buggy and that it's probably a harmless
bug -- like we already do in many other cases (e.g., the 3Com drivers sometime
tell the user that his card has broken DMA, so it's going to use PIO instead).
> When a user can't do *anything* about it, it's useless, and serves
> as nothing but a cause for concern. "Oh no, is my laptop dying?".
If it's not a laptop, they can do.
When I am considering a keyboard to buy and I see this message, I usually
choose a different one immediately, because it often means that the keyboard
will react badly to fast typing.
Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <[email protected]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
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