On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:47:59AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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.
I definitely see this in the console: in emacs all the time, in mutt, and in lynx. I haven't had it occur in readline or bash. It's often the arrow keys which I hold down; and I do hold left and right arrow down quite often while traversing a command line but haven't observed it. > 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. Is there a way to monitor it continuously to a log? This happens perhaps 2 or 3 times a week; so I would just need to notice it and then go check the log. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
