From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268370AbUJDD6c (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:58:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268378AbUJDD6c (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:58:32 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28819 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268370AbUJDD63 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 23:58:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4160CA56.3040703@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:58:14 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior References: <415C8D7F.3020505@pobox.com> <20041001071323.GA5779@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20041001071323.GA5779@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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