On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

>    I've investigated this problem a few months ago.  Basically,
> it looks like a kernel bug.  /dev/console is returning duplicate
> key releases when you type fast enough.  The text mode console seems

Exactly, it only happens if I type quicklyy.

> to have a filter that makes things usable, but XFree86, which is
> reading the raw data from /dev/console doesn't and is not expecting
> the kernel to be passing it junk. 
> 
>    I wrote a filter for XFree86 and I'm attaching the diff against
> common/xf86Events.c, but it's a kludge.  The problem is really in
> the kernel.

What did the lkml say? 
I'd preferr  to ffixx thee problem in thee  righht place :)

Ah, the bounce again.
Also: How comes that the problem only occurs under X, but not on the
console itself?

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