Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:12:04 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: input layer strangeness |
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > It's been doing this ever since the input layer changes: > > > > - open a few xterms > > - press the spacebar, leave pressed > > - start waggling the mouse about > > - stop pressing spacebar, keep waggling the mouse about, > > across the xterms > > > > The keystrokes *never* stop coming. Just the continuous mouse > > activity causes a stream of keyboard input, at seemingly the normal > > autorepeat rate. I can keep them coming for 30 seconds, just by > > moving the mouse. > > Do they stop coming when you stop moving the mouse or they don't stop at > all? The first would be quite interesting, the second would probably be > a missed key release event due to keyboard controller overload by the > mouse.
They stop immediately if I stop moving the mouse.
> > In practice, it's irritating because it's quite easy to get a > > stream of erroneous input dumped into the wrong windows. > > > > It's a vanilla dual pentium with an AT keyboard and a PS/2 > > mouse. > > Can you check if it happens also on UP? Just want to know if it might be > a SMP issue ...
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