Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:24:08 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck |
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On Fri 2008-03-14 10:21:29, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > 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. > > That's true. Unfortunately USB keyboards don't behave this way and there > is nothing we can do about that.
Maybe. (Could we get host controller to effectively timestamp usb packets for us?)
..but that is not a problem here, because X are broken even on ps/2 keyboards. USB keyboards may be misdesigned, but they are not responsible for problems we see. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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