- MacAlly USB Graphite Keyboard
- Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (Quite possibly thee phattest mouse out there)
- KeySpan USB Card
- Beige G3
- OS 8.6
- USB 1.3 Drivers

Keyboard Issues:
- Cannot use force quit. Ever.
- Cannot use keyboard force restart. Ever.
- Cannot use Command-Option-S to bring control string to view.
- Cannot press more than four keys in Quake.(Can press at least 5 to 7, depending on the keys, on Standard Apple keyboard)

Is the ANY USB keyboard even worth that? Are others experiencing these problems?

General USB issues:
- With keyboard and mouse plugged in, the machine will randomly crash after completing startup.

[Don Foy]

The problem could be your USB drivers. Try installing the latest USB drivers, v 1.4.1

http://www.versiontracker.com/redir...._1.4.1.smi.bin

Thanks for the link! =)

[Misha]

It also doesn't help that you're using a USB keyboard plugged into a non-USB (standard) Mac.

Commands suchs a Force Quit and Restart (three finger salute) are actually programmed into a chip so that the Mac will recognize them even if every other process crashes/freezes. With a USB PCI card and a USB keyboard, you override that (the chip is connected to the ADB port).

As for the 4 key limit, that might have to do with the drivers or again the USB PCI issue. Same deal with command-option-s.

I have somewhat similar problem, although not quite the same - I have a MacAlly iKey USB Keyboard connected to my pm 7300 with a PCI/USB adapter card, US system 9.04.

My trouble is that the keyboard refuses to recognize danish characters (transcribed in english as ae, oe and double-a), although it has danish character layout. It insist on writing as if it was an english keyboard!

I have set the language to Danish in the Keyboard control panel AND installed the latest Apple USB Adapter Card Support, MacAlly Imediakey and Apple Game Sprockets drivers.

What can I do... (funny, the question mark is also rearranged somewhere)