On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:42:47PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
I can concur, this is very annoying. It is happening for few years now, on different kernels and architectures. But always on Linux. -- Tomasz Torcz ,,If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking xmpp: [email protected] an IP-routable hand grenade.'' -- Andrew Morton (LKML) _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
