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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: keyboard problems, IDE drives, VGA BIOS
Message-ID: <87.272c05dc@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:35:08 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.042016.24320@morrow.stanford.edu>
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In article <1990Oct25.042016.24320@morrow.stanford.edu>, GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz) writes:
> A couple OS/2 hardware related questions have recently been posted
> to the newsgroups.  ...
> 
> First, there was a question regarding a keyboard problem with OS/2
> and an AMI motherboard with (naturally) an AMI BIOS.  I'm not sure
> of the details, but AMI had to upgrade its keyboard controller for
> OS/2 (1.2?).  Your keyboard controller needs to be at least at level
> KD if I recall correctly.   I'm using an AMI MKIII with keyboard
> controller level KF, and previously used a MKII with keyboard
> controller level KD.  The only problem I've seen is that the central
> keys (cursor, PgUp, PgDn, etc) don't work with when using Codeview
> on the second monitor, and that's such an obscure case that I
> suspect Codeview more than I suspect the BIOS.
> 
My understanding is that this is not quite correct.  I originally had
these kind of problems with the ?K8 keyboard controller.  It affected
non OS/2 PM apps (eg WordPerfect, CodeView) in early versions (eg 11/89) 
of IBM's OS/2 1.2 SE.  I believe that one of the maintainance releases
of OS/2 1.2 fixed this problem; I think I saw this somewhere on a BBS.  
But before that, I had upgraded my keyboard controller to KD, so I don't
know this from first-hand experience.

			Adrian Goldman

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