It looks like this is a problem with the Toshiba keyboard and X. It happens in both XFree 4.0.3 that ships with RedHat 7.1 and in Xfree 4.1.x installed in Windows 200 with cygwin.
This seems to suggest to me that XFree86 is not reading the information from the keyboard correctly. NOTE: I have never been able to produce this problem outside X. (ie. in both the Linux and cygwin versions of bash). This really illustrates why Linux will never make it the corporate mainstream IMHO. Toshiba are the largest supplier of laptops in the world and companies buy them for that reason. It is also not helped by the fact that Toshiba themselves are a bunch of #$%@!^% and deliberately set out to be an MS only hardware platform. Basically anyone wanting to run Linux seriously should stay away from Toshiba laptops. By comparison for example there are a number of references re: people getting Linux to run satisfactorily on an IBM T23. I suggested that my company look at IBM's but they had basically made their mind to get the Toshiba Tecra 9000. On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote: > Hi. > > I have a Portege 4000 which has exactly the same problem. The problem only > occurs in X with the internal keyboard and it does not depend on the > operating system. I guess the bug is in the hardware and I have been > asking here if anyone can help me debug this but so far nobody has shown > any interest. Well it works fine on Windows and also outside of X so I don't know how you draw the conclusion that it is a hardware bug. More likely the hardware conforming to some spec that isn't handled by XFree. Why does XFree use it's own keyboard code anyway ? > > I have tried to use the BounceKeys option set to smaller value, and it > sure helps for a couple of minutes but then it seems to reset or > something. > > One guy that has a Portege 4000 and Linux told that the problem is most > likely that the keyboard is sending multiple keyrelease events when it > should send only one. Now this could be probably cleaned up in the > keyboard driver. I don't know if it should be done in the kernel or in X. There have been reference to an old Satelite with this problem and someone wrote a patch for the keyboard driver used by the kernel. BUT it only happens in X !!!!! Can someone explain why ? > > Teemu > > P.S. Please reply to my e-mail as I am not subscribing > to this list any more. Thanks. > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:08:39 +1100 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Xpert]Re: Keyboard repeat problem on Tecra 9000 > > > > I'm using XFree86 4.0.3 on a Toshiba Tecra 9000 with an S3 SuperSavage IXC >graphics chip. I have a problem which appears identical to that experienced (and >reported here) by Teemu Rinta-aho on Wed 2 Jan 2002. >(http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-january/014414.html). > > > > The problem is that in X I'm getting repeated characters. > > > > For example: "Thiis is a ttesst." > > > > Has anyone else seen this problem or anything like it ? > > > > Does anyone have a clue what apect of the system would be causing it ie. Keyboard >config in X, Video driver, ... ??? > > > > Does anyone have a clue how I might stop it happening ? > > > > I'm using RedHat 7.1 > > XFree 4.0.3 > > The problem ONLY occurs in X. ie. it does not occur in the console prior to X >being loaded. > > > > I have tried changing the character repeat rates in XF86Config-4 but this has no >affect. > > > > I have disabled key repeating using xset but this still has no impact. > > > > Possible ways forward that I can think of (but I don't know how to test these) are: > > > > 1. Check what scan codes the keyboard is send to the keyboard driver > > > > 2. Check what the keyboard driver is sending to the next level (in X ?) > > > > 3. Check what X is sending to the video driver (savage_drv.o) > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wilson > > _______________________________________________ > > Xpert mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > > > > Teemu Rinta-aho Tel: +358 9 299 3078 > NomadicLab, Ericsson Research Mobile: +358 40 562 3066 > Oy L M Ericsson Ab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
