Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:35:39 -0500 | From | "K.R. Foley" <> | Subject | Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems |
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Dave Neuer wrote: > On 7/8/05, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > >>* K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote: >> >> >>>Ingo, >>> >>>I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when >>>running the RT patches. > > > <snip> > >>>2.6.12 doesn't seem to have the >>>problem at all, only when running the RT patches. It SEEMS to have >>>gotten worse lately. > > > <snip> > >>>Adjusting the delay in the keyboard repeat seems to help. Any ideas? >> >>hm. Would be nice to somehow find a condition that triggers it. > > > FWIW, I've had this problem from time to time on my Compaq Presario > x1010us laptop (which also uses the ICH-4 chipset) with several kernel > versions between 2.6.7 and 2.6.12, and I have _not_ been running the > RT patches (though I plan to start soon). > > It seems to only happen when the laptop has been running for a while. > Also, X has been running each time. When it occurs, the stuck key > events follow the mouse focus from window to window, and in the few > cases where I'm able to either switch out of X to a different VT or > kill X, the keyboard is still "wedged" -- if I recall correctly, > switching VTs results in no keyboard events reaching that VT (as if X > is still consuming them). Can't remember what happens when I've > successfully killed X.
I have seen this happen once or twice, but this behaves more like the keyboard really is stuck. The situation I am having is very brief repeats of a key rather than just sticking forever. FWIW, when I have seen the above situation it behaved just as you described with the stuck key following the focus.
> > Again, happens uncommonly enough that I haven't put much effort into > debugging it. > > Anyway, unless it's a similar but unlrelated bug, it's not _caused_ by RT. > > Dave >
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