Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751913AbYCLKdI (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:33:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751261AbYCLKc4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:32:56 -0400 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:38222 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751286AbYCLKcz (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:32:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:32:50 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: "Fred ." cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Keys get stuck In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 27 On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Fred . wrote: > Sometimes the keys get "stuck" and it keeps on repeating the button all > the time. It often happen when I play games, that it repeats one of the > arrow keys. > Now this is a problem that lots of people have experienced. > I've experienced it with other kernels too. Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality. I guess you are not able to reproduce this problem in the console, but only X, right? > Someone said this was a problem with dynticks, but I don't know. AFAIK it's a problem with X being confused by scheduler behavior (which is not necessarily wrong). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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/