They work fine. I use them a lot.
> Do I lose voice recognition when I start up an SVGA DOOM?
> (hmmm, could DOOM even start?) What about X? I'd not want
If you tell X the console input is via a tty/pty pair its fine (X has
proper schems for this however already) via synthesised events.
DOOM tends to hit hardware and low level keyboard drivers - thats why
that sort of thing is bad.
Alan