Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-07T06:08:09Z

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 00:40 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Aug 01, 2007, at 11:06:00, Indan Zupancic wrote:
> > Different programs, different keys "stuck", so hard to tell. The
> > amount the pressed key is repeated differs too, from double to
> > hundreds.
> >
> > As an apparently separate problem my mouse warps once in a while
> > too, and that's not totally fixed yet, neither with that locking
> > patch. Throw in that two of my USB ports stopped working after a
> > rare power outage, I didn't totally trust my hardware any more,
> > hence my initial reluctance to report these problems.
> >
> > We could have independent problems with more or less the same
> > symptoms, at least Teresa's problem seems much worse than ours, and
> > if you and Ingo only experience a stuck delete key, it might be
> > something else.

the last time I saw something like this it was a BIOS that kept doing
USB->PS/2 emulation even when the kernel was running.. that caused great
havoc somehow...

those who are seeing this... is it all on a USB keyboard? If so, is the
bios set to do PS/2 emulation (sometimes called USB legacy emulation) ??