Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:56:04 +0100 | From | "Fred ." <> | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck |
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With so many people suffering from this bug (for a long time), and so many bright people here, why doesn't it get fixed?
...other operating systems don't suffer from this bug...
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > On Wed 2008-03-12 21:14:56, David Newall wrote: > > Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement > > > auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality. > > > > It should be said that X implements auto-repeat out of necessity. While > > the kernel can report key down and up events, its further interpretation > > of those events is not appropriate. Many combinations of events are > > possible, such as keyboard plus mouse, and this precludes the kernel > > from providing a full interpretation. It would be wrong for it to even > > try. X is the proper place to implement auto-repeat for X. > > No. > > hw is proper place to implement autorepeat, and along with some > buffering, it has chance to work. Kernel is not real-time, and X are > definitely not real-time, while autorepeat is real-time operation. > > It actually mostly works in ps/2 case. Buffer in hardware means that > pretty big interrupt delays can be tolerated without problems. > > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html >
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