Re: Keyboard oddness.

Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26T10:51:35Z

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 12:41:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le ven 26/09/2003 ? 12:24, Vojtech Pavlik a écrit :
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:43:43AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Couldn't it at least detect there's a problem ? Most people I know do not press a key
> > > 2000+ times in a row during normal activity.
> >
> > You do. Scrolling up/down in a document is one example. And there is no
> > point to limit the repeat to say 80 or 200 characters. You would still
> > hate having 80 repeated characters and then it stopping.
>
> Well then only allow monster autorepeats for arrows then.
> (they are never stuck in my board anyway;)
>
> > The problem really is there is no way to detect it. My latest patches
> > should fix this for AT keyboards by not using software autorepeat for
> > them.
> >
> > Of course this won't fix any problems with USB, if there are still any.
> > My USB keyboard works just perfectly, no problems with the autorepeat.
>
> Well mine doesn't:(. I seem to have gathered from past threads that HID
> makes the full keyboard status available at all time (unlike AT which
> only provides push/release events). Couldn't the repeat code just
> double-check the key is really stuck every ten repeats for example ?

It provides the full state when the state changes. If you miss the
change on release ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR