On Saturday 14 November 2009, Nix wrote: >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.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that its fixed, I've not noticed it ssssssssstooooping doing that yet, currently at 2.6.32-rc7. ^^^^^^^^^^^example, I fixed the rest of them, but its been a PIMA for 2 years now, over 2 motherboards and 5 or 6 keyboards, its never really stopped. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
