Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:10:43 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [Must-fix] Keyboard occasionally endlessly repeating keys |
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:24:44PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> After having upgraded my notebook to 2.5.72, I noticed a rare problem, > that occurs about twice a day, maybe more. After pressing a key, it > gets repeated endlessly until the next key is pressed. When typing > fast, it is quite possible to cover up a couple of these, as the > repeats appear to happen at the set keyboard rates. Problem never > occured with any 2.4 kernel. > > I remember having read about this problem on the list before, but > didn't search my archive yet. Also, I consider this to be a show > stopper, as the bug is already nasty when hitting 'q' inside mutt once > and might have worse effects with other programs. YMMV.
Yes, I know about the problem. I wasn't able to pin it down yet, though. It looks like the keyboard might just 'forget' to send a key release. This is not a problem on 2.4, since 2.4 uses the keyboard hardware autorepeat. 2.5 does autorepeat in software and if the keyboard doesn't send the release, well ...
But it might be a software problem, too. If you want to help, you can run with I8042_DEBUG_IO enabled all the time and send me the log from around the point in time when it happened.
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