Re: keyboard repeat / sound [was Re: Linux 2.6.0-test6]

Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-30T13:48:10Z

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:21:34AM -0300, Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:

> > This is because it is the same as on the latest 2.4 kernel. 2.6 used
> > software autorepeat up to test6. Now, because of hardware bugs, it was
> > necessary to switch back to hardware autorepeat, like 2.4 uses.
> and it fixes the problem with my notebook's keyboard, thanks :)

What problem exactly was that?

> > Interesting. This probably has much to do with mouse acceleration
> > settings. What was done was that the mouse report rate was made LOWER
> > (60 compared to 200) to cure problems with some systems that couldn't
> > handle the high report rate.
> >
> > This makes the movement per report larger and thus the acceleration
> > formula in XFree then works more aggressively.

> test6 was the first 2.5/2.6 kernel that psmouse_noext=1 wasn't necessary
> to make my synaptics touchpad work. but i noticed it's much more
> sensible (with leads to be very difficult to hit xmms' pause button :)
> than using it with noext option. is anyone working in an user level
> application to configure 2.6's synaptics touchpad driver?

Have you tried the

http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html

XFree86 driver?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR