From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:58:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4160CA56.3040703@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041001071323.GA5779@ucw.cz>
Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 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.
Confirmed, console keyboard repeat does not show this behavior.
However... this behavior does goes away when I boot an earlier kernel.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 3:58 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
2004-10-04 3:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-04 7:26 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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