Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756490AbXHGGIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:08:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754778AbXHGGHu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:07:50 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41004 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754151AbXHGGHt (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 02:07:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd From: Arjan van de Ven To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Indan Zupancic , Rene Herman , teresa@kvitka.net, Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Michal Piotrowski , CK Mailinglist , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1185827130.26459.16.camel@xtower.fri> <6bffcb0e0707301549t6be3cd97y27726f5421bb7680@mail.gmail.com> <20070801064816.GC10134@elte.hu> <46B06815.10200@gmail.com> <46470.81.207.0.53.1185971693.squirrel@secure.samage.net> <46B0818F.10204@gmail.com> <49653.81.207.0.53.1185973640.squirrel@secure.samage.net> <46B08B95.2010405@kvitka.net> <46B09190.1070201@gmail.com> <46850.81.207.0.53.1185980760.squirrel@secure.samage.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:05:58 -0700 Message-Id: <1186466758.2700.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1399 Lines: 32 On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 00:40 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Aug 01, 2007, at 11:06:00, Indan Zupancic wrote: > > Different programs, different keys "stuck", so hard to tell. The > > amount the pressed key is repeated differs too, from double to > > hundreds. > > > > As an apparently separate problem my mouse warps once in a while > > too, and that's not totally fixed yet, neither with that locking > > patch. Throw in that two of my USB ports stopped working after a > > rare power outage, I didn't totally trust my hardware any more, > > hence my initial reluctance to report these problems. > > > > We could have independent problems with more or less the same > > symptoms, at least Teresa's problem seems much worse than ours, and > > if you and Ingo only experience a stuck delete key, it might be > > something else. the last time I saw something like this it was a BIOS that kept doing USB->PS/2 emulation even when the kernel was running.. that caused great havoc somehow... those who are seeing this... is it all on a USB keyboard? If so, is the bios set to do PS/2 emulation (sometimes called USB legacy emulation) ?? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/