On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 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?
Didn't ask.
> 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?
Like I mentioned, the console probably has a filter like I wrote for
XFree86. It's a kludge though so I doubt it will go into the XFree86
tree. /dev/console shouldn't be passing us junk.
Mark.
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