-final, a huge keyboard lag is back

-final, a huge keyboard lag is back

[Gene Heskett]

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.

I hadn't noticed the effect during the approaches to final, -rc4 in 
particular maintained its snappiness from the keyboard very well.

This is not accompanied by an observable amount of cpu usage either.  
But its back, sometimes non-stop for several minutes at a time with 
-final.  I have NDI where to look, so I'll leave that to those that 
breath src code in their sleep.  In this sense, I'm a dumb beta 
tester making a use/feel report.

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Re: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back

[Jeff Garzik]

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

Re: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 18 October 2004 16:01, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>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?
>
Not so far as I've checked Jeff.  I normally run x here and the 
console is basicly for emergencies in my mindset.

>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.

I'm not seeing that, and its more than occasionally missing a keypress 
I know darned well I hit.   ATM its not doing it, but then I'm 
rebooted to -rc4 due to instability in final.  I've canceled an 
option I had set in the -finals .config, and a fresh copy is making 
now.  So we'll be able to go back to testing -final in a short.

>This doesn't happen in console.

I can't say as I've ever noticed it from the first 6 vt's.

> Jeff

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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