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Re: inoperative keyboard - analysis required

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Paul Edwards wrote:
> On 02/03/24 07:57, Dave Yeo wrote:
>
>>> "Your parameters have selected to turn off
>>> the input queue."
>>>
>>> What does this mean? What "input queue"? And how
>>> did I turn it off? And he suggests that I could
>>> have turned it back on.
>>
>> You have found the Presentation Managers Achilles heel. All programs in
>> the Presentation Managers session, eg started from the Presentation
>> Manager or WPS excepting full screen sessions use one input queue, which
>> if it gets blocked, the desktop hangs. It was partially fixed in Warp
>> V3, FP#17 but it still possible for a program to block the queue and
>> hang the desktop. It is usually called the SIQ
>> Seems you turned off the keyboard part of it.
>
> I have done some searching. I do not currently have this:
>
> SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=ON
>
> in my config.sys
>
> It's unclear to me that if I added it, something would
> happen in this circumstance.
>
> This seems to be used for too many unprocessed messages.
>
> Is that something I am likely to have?

I forget the specifics. I notice that Arca does not include it. My old 
Warp V4 has,
SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=9000
Probably don't need it but wouldn't hurt.

>
> As per the Physical Device Driver Reference:
>
> https://www.os2museum.com/files/docs/os220tl/os2-2.0-pdd-ref-1992.pdf
>
> Function 51 H - Set Input Mode
>
> on page 18-77 there are some "x" fields and I would
> assume the proper thing to do is query current settings
> before changing this.
>
> So the only other documented thing is "shift report".

I'd think whether the shift key is pressed.

>
> I don't know what that is, but I thought that by having
> that switched off I might have disabled the keyboard.
>
> ie I used 0x80 instead of 0x81.
>
>> Perhaps you should post to the ticket asking for more info, like how you
>> turned off the SIQ and how to turn it back on.
>
> Do you know how to deliberately switch off the SIQ?

No, never heard of the possibility until reading your ticket.
Usual problem is a program crashing while using it.

>
> If so, that might give an idea on how to switch it
> back on.
>
> Thanks. Paul.
>
Dave

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  Re: inoperative keyboard - analysis required Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-03-01 15:57 -0800
    Re: inoperative keyboard - analysis required Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-03-02 09:17 +0800
      Re: inoperative keyboard - analysis required Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-03-01 22:37 -0800
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