That's interesting.  Within Irix, I've never seen or experienced a problem with 
the keyboard or the mouse.

>From what you are saying, it sounds as though the driver needs some reworking. 
> It seems as though the correct solution is to fix the driver rather than 
>install PCI cards, especially when the PCI real estate is so limited on these 
>systems.

I'll wait for more responses; if this is the issue, however, I think I'll just 
fix the driver and submit a pull request.

On 9/16/18, 6:32 AM, "Peter Kay" <[email protected]> wrote:

    The keyboard issue on an O2 is supposedly because it uses the PS/2 command 
set 3 rather than the more widely used 2. Even in Irix the keyboard handling 
isn't perfect.
    
    NetBSD is just as bad. I took the pragmatic approach of putting a keyboard 
faker on the PS/2 port and installing a USB PCI card, with a PS/2 to USB 
converter.
    
    Xorg is pretty slow on the O2 as it's unaccelerated. NetBSD is a lot faster 
in X but their port is 32 bit.

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