Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:17:08 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd | From | "Indan Zupancic" <> |
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On Tue, August 7, 2007 08:05, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 00:40 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> On Aug 01, 2007, at 11:06:00, Indan Zupancic wrote: >> > Different programs, different keys "stuck", so hard to tell. The >> > amount the pressed key is repeated differs too, from double to >> > hundreds. >> > >> > As an apparently separate problem my mouse warps once in a while >> > too, and that's not totally fixed yet, neither with that locking >> > patch. Throw in that two of my USB ports stopped working after a >> > rare power outage, I didn't totally trust my hardware any more, >> > hence my initial reluctance to report these problems. >> > >> > We could have independent problems with more or less the same >> > symptoms, at least Teresa's problem seems much worse than ours, and >> > if you and Ingo only experience a stuck delete key, it might be >> > something else. > > > the last time I saw something like this it was a BIOS that kept doing > USB->PS/2 emulation even when the kernel was running.. that caused great > havoc somehow... > > those who are seeing this... is it all on a USB keyboard? If so, is the > bios set to do PS/2 emulation (sometimes called USB legacy emulation) ??
No, using PS/2 keyboard and mouse here, and made sure to disable USB legacy emulation in the BIOS ages ago.
But for me the problems are gone now, since 2.6.23-rc1 (I don't think it was fixed by CFS though, just in the same timeframe).
Greetings,
Indan
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