Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

Kyle Moffett
2007-08-07T04:40:35Z

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.

Well I've just seen an FC box (6? 7?) running a 2.6.18-ish which
reliably experiences the same problem (randomly stuck keys), so I
doubt very much it's CFS. Basically keys will somewhat randomly
repeat 6-7 times, mainly depending on how fast you're typing (the
intern using the box typed somewhat slowly and didn't trigger it
much, but when I borrowed his keyboard I could reliably trigger it
once every 5 sec or so. Unfortunately I don't have access to that
box anymore, so I can't really debug the problem.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett