Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote:
On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating
keys. Any idea why and how to fix?
For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended
it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p
with RH 8.0 loaded. X was running.
--
Wade Hampton
Interesting. I find that occasionally, keys don't repeat. If I lift my
finger and try the key again, it usually works fine. I also notice that
very infrequently, if I press a key with the control key held down, the
character will print instead of doing the control-key action. Trying the
key combo again usually works fine. This happens on my Latitude but not
on any of my desktops.
Here is a wild-assed guess (maybe sombody can tell me if I am talking
through my hat or not). There are a couple of bugs in Bugzilla referring
to the fact that real time clock on some laptops runs slow. There was a
thread in one of the Red Hat lists (but I can't recall which now) that
explained that this was a consequence of the GNOME battery applet masking
interrupts while getting the battery status. Now that I think of it, if
this is correct, then it seems like it might be related to this problem.
My thought is that the pressing of the control key or the interrupt that
causes the generation of the repeated character might be being dropped
while the battery applet is running.
Experts: does this make any sense at all?
Check to make sure autorepeat is on in the xserver. Use xset utility
(and "man xset"). Type
xset q
and see if autorepeat is on, the delay (how long you press before
it repeats) and the rate. If it's off, you can use
xset r
to turn it on. The default for the setting can be put in
/etc/X11/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) , usually
something like:
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
In the "InputDevice" section.
Hope this helps,
-Bob Arendt
