2004-10-18 15:39:28

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back

Greetings;

for the last 3 or 4 minor revisions, and 3 different kde installs I
have had a situation wherein the keyboard repeat goes down to less
than 1 per second, making it very difficult to go back and fix the
typu's my ancient fingers inevitably make. The effect came and went
at seemingly random times.

I hadn't noticed the effect during the approaches to final, -rc4 in
particular maintained its snappiness from the keyboard very well.

This is not accompanied by an observable amount of cpu usage either.
But its back, sometimes non-stop for several minutes at a time with
-final. I have NDI where to look, so I'll leave that to those that
breath src code in their sleep. In this sense, I'm a dumb beta
tester making a use/feel report.

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2004-10-18 20:04:44

by Jeff Garzik

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Subject: Re: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> for the last 3 or 4 minor revisions, and 3 different kde installs I
> have had a situation wherein the keyboard repeat goes down to less
> than 1 per second, making it very difficult to go back and fix the
> typu's my ancient fingers inevitably make. The effect came and went
> at seemingly random times.

Does this happen on console, or just in X?

I am currently seeing: fast keyboard repeat immediately after keypress,
for one second. After that, keyboard repeat slows immediately and
dramatically, to a slower but consistent repeat rate.

This doesn't happen in console.

Jeff



2004-10-18 22:26:51

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: Re: -final, a huge keyboard lag is back

On Monday 18 October 2004 16:01, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> for the last 3 or 4 minor revisions, and 3 different kde installs
>> I have had a situation wherein the keyboard repeat goes down to
>> less than 1 per second, making it very difficult to go back and
>> fix the typu's my ancient fingers inevitably make. The effect
>> came and went at seemingly random times.
>
>Does this happen on console, or just in X?
>
Not so far as I've checked Jeff. I normally run x here and the
console is basicly for emergencies in my mindset.

>I am currently seeing: fast keyboard repeat immediately after
> keypress, for one second. After that, keyboard repeat slows
> immediately and dramatically, to a slower but consistent repeat
> rate.

I'm not seeing that, and its more than occasionally missing a keypress
I know darned well I hit. ATM its not doing it, but then I'm
rebooted to -rc4 due to instability in final. I've canceled an
option I had set in the -finals .config, and a fresh copy is making
now. So we'll be able to go back to testing -final in a short.

>This doesn't happen in console.

I can't say as I've ever noticed it from the first 6 vt's.

> Jeff

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Cheers, Gene
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