Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

[Chris Holvenstot <cholvenstot@comcast.net>]

Jiri - 

For what it is worth, and understand that it is hard to prove a
negitive, on slack moments over the weekend I repeatedly booted my
system into single user (console) mode using a kernel with
CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED set to yes.

To date I have NOT been able to recreate the repeating key issue outside
of X.

Chris


On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:05 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I have been seeing repeated keys a lot under X on my athlon 700, 
> > but mainly when I have firefox running (which is of course quite a load 
> > on the poor old thing).  This has been going on for probably the last 
> > year or so.  I thought it was just the machine getting weird, although 
> > whenever it wasn't running firefox or other memory/cpu heavy loads it 
> > seemed fine.
> 
> This could be caused by the fact that as far as I know, X are not using 
> kernel-autorepeat, but they are handling it themselves, right? So if their 
> sense of time (probably due to some change of kernel timekeeping) gets 
> wrong, the autorepeat in X might also get wrong.
> 
> It would be nice to know if when you hit the situation when autorepeat 
> goes strange in X, if it is still OK in console.
>