From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267651AbUJRUEo (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:04:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267779AbUJRUDQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:03:16 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:57261 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267856AbUJRUB7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:01:59 -0400 Message-ID: <41742128.3030305@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:01:44 -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: gene.heskett@verizon.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back References: <200410181139.16083.gene.heskett@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200410181139.16083.gene.heskett@verizon.net> 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 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > for the last 3 or 4 minor revisions, and 3 different kde installs I > have had a situation wherein the keyboard repeat goes down to less > than 1 per second, making it very difficult to go back and fix the > typu's my ancient fingers inevitably make. The effect came and went > at seemingly random times. Does this happen on console, or just in X? I am currently seeing: fast keyboard repeat immediately after keypress, for one second. After that, keyboard repeat slows immediately and dramatically, to a slower but consistent repeat rate. This doesn't happen in console. Jeff