Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932941AbYB0APs (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932840AbYB0APf (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:35 -0500 Received: from mail.crca.org.au ([67.207.131.56]:60120 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932818AbYB0APd (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:33 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 442 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:15:33 EST X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@crca.org.au To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Jiri Kosina , Chris Holvenstot , elendil@planet.nl, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Kernel In-Reply-To: <20080226220407.GY1287@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <1203163503.6124.5.camel@popeye> <1203221372.6124.29.camel@popeye> <1203587101.27355.4.camel@popeye> <20080226145832.GA1289@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20080226215812.GX1287@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20080226220407.GY1287@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Christian Reformed Churches of Australia Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:08:05 +1100 Message-Id: <1204070885.30875.37.camel@laptop.nigel.suspend2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1755 Lines: 54 Hi. On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:04 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:01:55PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > 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 ... ? > > Well in my case this has been happening quite a long time, and I am > currently running 2.6.22 from Debian and I don't see any such config > option in the config. > > $ grep SCHED /boot/config-2.6.22-3-k7 > CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y > CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y > CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y > CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y > CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq" > CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y > CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y > CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y > # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED is not set > # CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is not set > > So no idea what could have started the problem originally. I guess I > have to start booting some older kernels and seeing if that helps. I saw it this morning with 2.6.23.14. It was find for ages, and seems to be okay again now. Not sure what triggered it though. nigel@laptop:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.23/build-2.6.23.x86_64$ grep SCHED .config CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq" CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y # CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED=y CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y (Old Redhat tree with TuxOnIce applied; I'm running F8 with all current updates applied). Nigel -- 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/