Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!thomas
From: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Weird problem with SetCPU FASTROM and A2620
Message-ID: <6944@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 13:46:35 GMT
References: <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3838@sugar.hackercorp.com> karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> I am having a weird problem with SetCPU 1.4 and an A2620 with 2 meg of 
> 32-bit RAM.  There is also an A2090 and an ASDG 8-MI with 4 MB of RAM 
> in the system (a 2000, but you guessed that, didn't you...)
> 
> If I do the 'setcpu fastrom,' things will work OK for a while, 'rombash'
> will tell me that it's a bit more than twice as fast, but after a while,
> the system will weird out and start autorepeating characters that I type,
> so if I type 'setcpu,' I might get 'sssssssssssssseeeetttttttttccccppppuuuuuu.'
> 
> Any ideas?

This is a problem on A2000's with original keyboards (the ones with the
small function keys).  Dave H is/was working on a new setcpu which would
patch the system to keep this from happening, but I don't know what the
status of this is.
 
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Dave
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