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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:13:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001071323.GA5779@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415C8D7F.3020505@pobox.com>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:49:35PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> After booting into 2.6.9-rc3 release kernel, I am seeing strange and 
> annoying keyboard repeat behavior.
> 
> If I hold down a single key, while in X, the character will repeat at 
> the expected (2.6.9-rc2 and prior) rate... for 1 second.
> 
> After 1 second, the keyboard repeat rate slows to half or more.
> 
> Can we please fix this?  Config attached.

How does it behave on the console? The problem is that X generates its
own software autorepeat and ignores what the kernel feeds it. So I
suppose this might be more a gettimeofday or scheduling problem than one
with the input layer.


-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 22:49 Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior Jeff Garzik
2004-10-01  7:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-10-04  3:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-04  7:26     ` Vojtech Pavlik

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