Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:01:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc: Chris Holvenstot <cholvenstot@comcast.net>, elendil@planet.nl,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > This could be caused by the fact that as far as I know, X are not using 
> > kernel-autorepeat, but they are handling it themselves, right? So if their 
> > sense of time (probably due to some change of kernel timekeeping) gets 
> > wrong, the autorepeat in X might also get wrong.
> > It would be nice to know if when you hit the situation when autorepeat 
> > goes strange in X, if it is still OK in console.
> Yes console is always fine.

OK, so what very probably happened is that CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED somehow 
schedules X server in a way which confuses its sense of time, and 
therefore makes autorepeat buggy ... ?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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