Re: Keys get stuck

Sebastien Dugue
2008-03-12T08:48:46Z

Hi Fred,

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:32:14 +0100 "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I (and many others) have a problem.

So did I :(

>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" (alpha).
> xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu6
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Mon Mar 10 15:32:00 UTC 2008
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> MSI P35 Neo motherboard with a HP USB keyboard.
>
> Sometimes the keys get "stuck" and it keeps on repeating the button
> all the time.
> It often happen when I play games, that it repeats one of the arrow keys.
>
> Now this is a problem that lots of people have experienced.
> I've experienced it with other kernels too.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/194214
>
> It is a very annoying bug, that happens to many users.
> Restarting Xorg solves the problem.
>
> Someone said this was a problem with dynticks, but I don't know.

I had the same problem back in the 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 days (no dynticks).
The only solution I found was to get rid of gnome. Since then I've been
happily running with xfce.

>
> Does anyone know what is causing this problem, and how to fix it?

Yep, try to get rid of gnome, if you don't see the problem anymore then
complain to the gnome developers.

Sebastien.