Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:03:33 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck |
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On Thu 2008-03-13 18:56:04, Fred . wrote: > With so many people suffering from this bug (for a long time), and so > many bright people here, why doesn't it get fixed?
With so many trolls out here it is hard to get any real work done.
> ...other operating systems don't suffer from this bug...
X is broken here... feel free to fix it. You could also test 2.6.25-rc4, perhaps it is fixed there? Disable GROUP_SCHED.
Pavel
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > On Wed 2008-03-12 21:14:56, David Newall wrote: > > > Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > > Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement > > > > auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality. > > > > > > It should be said that X implements auto-repeat out of necessity. While > > > the kernel can report key down and up events, its further interpretation > > > of those events is not appropriate. Many combinations of events are > > > possible, such as keyboard plus mouse, and this precludes the kernel > > > from providing a full interpretation. It would be wrong for it to even > > > try. X is the proper place to implement auto-repeat for X. > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > >
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