'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Torcz at 15/11/09 00:11 did gyre and gimble: > 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. >
A consistent problem I've seen with key repeats for a while now (years) is that of when I try to type something immediately after resuming from suspend. Some time ago the resume cycle took a while for the display to come back so usually I didn't type anything for a while after resuming. But now with KMS, my display comes on immediately (yay!) which tempts me to type in my password pretty quickly. If I do, the key repeats start and quite literally don't stop! I can't switch VTs or find any way to recover this. Usually I just power cycle. Is there anything I can do to debug (e.g. via SSH) when this situation arises? I'm on 2.6.31.5, still on xserver 1.6.x but will be upgrading to the latest packages all round today! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
