Hello :-) I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox.. Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem? Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:> Hello :-) > > I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox.. > > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem? > > Best regards :-) > Tomek > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info >I have this issue, but only when logged into the VM remotely via RDP. From the local console this never happens. It is intermittent and never happens when the session is first opened. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
2014-02-03 21:38, CeDeROM (Tomek) wrote:> I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox.. > > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem?I had this problem when a virtual machine (Fedora latest, GUI) was started from a remote machine, so its console opened over X11/ssh to a remote server (10 Mb/s link). The host was FreeBSD 9.2, virtual box 4.3.6. It took extreme patience and several attempts to type in a command in guest's xterm, having to pause after each quick keypress and wait for the echo to show up. Casually typing would result in looong autorepeats of some of the typed characters. When guest's console was open locally on the host (not over x11/ssh from a remote location), everything worked normally. Mark
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:38:45PM +0100, CeDeROM wrote:> Hello :-) > > I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox.. > > Did anyone notice this behavior? What is the problem?Yeah, I've seen it and it's a real pain. It doesn't matter if one is local or remote, if you type fast enough, it happens locally as well. I seem to remember there may be a repeat rate that needs to be set but my workaround is to not use the graphical client. It doesn't matter if one uses VNC or RDP or whatever. It happens locally if one types fast enough. Remotely, (ssh into host then exporting X over a fast ssh connection) it has made installing an ubuntu guest on a freebsd host impossible. Exporting an xterm over the same connection and keyboard repeat is normal. The effect from what I've read is not unique to freebsd hosts. -- John
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:38 PM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:> I have noticed that quite often keystrokes are repeated in VBox 4.3.6 > OSE on FreeBSD-10.0 AMD64. For example when I press cursor left it > repeats many times, letters also. The fast way to stop this is to > switch to another application on my BSD box then switch back to VBox..In the VM setup I have disabled Hardware Acceleration for 2D/3D Display and the problem is gone. Maybe new Xorg/Intel driver is not yet fast enough :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info