From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:06:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:06:48 -0400 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:48121 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:06:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9A8E34.7BC5E91A@digeo.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 23:12:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.38 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: lkml Subject: Re: input layer strangeness References: <3D9A74CF.8C8585E7@digeo.com> <20021002080952.B17477@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Oct 2002 06:12:05.0937 (UTC) FILETIME=[A1DFA210:01C269DA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > It's been doing this ever since the input layer changes: > > > > - open a few xterms > > - press the spacebar, leave pressed > > - start waggling the mouse about > > - stop pressing spacebar, keep waggling the mouse about, > > across the xterms > > > > The keystrokes *never* stop coming. Just the continuous mouse > > activity causes a stream of keyboard input, at seemingly the normal > > autorepeat rate. I can keep them coming for 30 seconds, just by > > moving the mouse. > > Do they stop coming when you stop moving the mouse or they don't stop at > all? The first would be quite interesting, the second would probably be > a missed key release event due to keyboard controller overload by the > mouse. They stop immediately if I stop moving the mouse. > > In practice, it's irritating because it's quite easy to get a > > stream of erroneous input dumped into the wrong windows. > > > > It's a vanilla dual pentium with an AT keyboard and a PS/2 > > mouse. > > Can you check if it happens also on UP? Just want to know if it might be > a SMP issue ... Will do.