On 11 Nov 2009, Oliver Block spake thusly: > I sporadically encounter repetitions of my keystrokes. What happens is > the following: > > I press any key, say "a", and instead of getting just one "a" I get many. > Not just a few but it is like if I would keep pressing the key. Then I > have problems stopping this. Often it does not stop itself. I cannot > tell what I have done exactly in these situations, but normally I tried > to press other keys to make this stopping. I guess I often used Esc. > Then normally it stops and afterwards everything is fine. But > this happens quite regularly (once every few hours) and it is very > annoying. This behaviour is somewhat new (since a few month). I am not > sure, but maybe it started after switching from a Ubuntu system to > Debian lenny now. The installed xorg has version 1:7.3+20.
Are you using kernels 2.6.31--2.6.31.4 on an SMP system or with PREEMPT enabled? If so, this is a Linux kernel bug, fixed in 2.6.31.5. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
