Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-14 Thread Stroller


On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote:


There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have
deleted


LMGTHFY:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=Xorg%20dropping%20keyboard%20events

Stroller.




[gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-14 Thread Moshe Kamensky
There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have 
deleted. The observable situation is that a key is ignored or (more 
annoyingly) repeated indefinitely. This happens in X but not on the 
console. I was wondering if this was resolved.

Thanks,
Moshe



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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote:
> After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have
> started dropping keyboard events.  Sometimes it's a keydown
> event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored.  Sometimes
> it's a keyup event -- in which case the key repeats
> indefinitely until another key is pressed.
> 
> It _seems_ to happen more when the CPU is busy, but I can't get
> it to happen predictably.  It stated on all of my machines
> within the last week or two.  They don't all get updated at the
> same time, but it seems to have started on each one after a
> recent udpate.
> 
> I haven't been able to find anything that seems relevent in
> bugzilla.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem pop up recently?
> 

Yes and No,

I had similar problems but completely deterministic.
When the keyboard is handled by hal it produces different keycodes then
before.

In my case the PgDn key now generates a code which was previously
generated by the key right to the right Windows key.
And in my .Xmodmap I had this code defined as Mode_switch which
made the key "dead" in my editor.
Try using xev to see which codes are generated by the keys which
cause you problems. Then look at all places where X11 key codes are 
redefined i.e. xmodmap is called.

Helmut.

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RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany



[gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have
started dropping keyboard events.  Sometimes it's a keydown
event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored.  Sometimes
it's a keyup event -- in which case the key repeats
indefinitely until another key is pressed.

It _seems_ to happen more when the CPU is busy, but I can't get
it to happen predictably.  It stated on all of my machines
within the last week or two.  They don't all get updated at the
same time, but it seems to have started on each one after a
recent udpate.

I haven't been able to find anything that seems relevent in
bugzilla.

Has anybody else seen this problem pop up recently?

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