On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is the same problem as that recently brought up on > the Xpert list again. The problem Mac users see seems to be in the new > input layer. Which is also definitely in the kernel though. :)
The problem referred to in this thread is certainly not one of unexpected release events. As that thread's subject indicated, it's because release events go missing. Since X does repeating on its own, a missing release event could mean that autorepeating lasts forever. However, I'm still not convinced that this is a kernel bug since no one has given a report of seeing this on the console. Both the USB drivers and the old ADB keyboard driver do repeating in software for the console as well, so a missng release event should be visible there. It's not difficult to convince me that it is a kernel bug, just print out all the events you're getting from the hardware and show that there are legitimate ones going missing. To see what X would get use showkey -s, to see what the driver is getting just add some printks to the right places. For ADB that simply involes setting dump_adb_input to 1, for USB just add something to the right completion function in your keyboard driver. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
