Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:32:50 +0100 (CET) | | From | Jiri Kosina <> | | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck | |
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Fred . wrote:
> Sometimes the keys get "stuck" and it keeps on repeating the button all
> the time. It often happen when I play games, that it repeats one of the
> arrow keys.
> Now this is a problem that lots of people have experienced.
> I've experienced it with other kernels too.
Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement
auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality. I
guess you are not able to reproduce this problem in the console, but only
X, right?
> Someone said this was a problem with dynticks, but I don't know.
AFAIK it's a problem with X being confused by scheduler behavior (which is
not necessarily wrong).
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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