Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756863AbYCMSDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:03:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756338AbYCMSDF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:03:05 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:47352 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755086AbYCMSDD (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:03:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:03:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Fred ." Cc: David Newall , Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Keys get stuck Message-ID: <20080313180333.GB4949@elf.ucw.cz> References: <47D7B428.6010804@davidnewall.com> <20080313171425.GA4840@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2192 Lines: 50 On Thu 2008-03-13 18:56:04, Fred . wrote: > With so many people suffering from this bug (for a long time), and so > many bright people here, why doesn't it get fixed? With so many trolls out here it is hard to get any real work done. > ...other operating systems don't suffer from this bug... X is broken here... feel free to fix it. You could also test 2.6.25-rc4, perhaps it is fixed there? Disable GROUP_SCHED. Pavel > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > On Wed 2008-03-12 21:14:56, David Newall wrote: > > > Jiri Kosina wrote: > > > > Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement > > > > auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality. > > > > > > It should be said that X implements auto-repeat out of necessity. While > > > the kernel can report key down and up events, its further interpretation > > > of those events is not appropriate. Many combinations of events are > > > possible, such as keyboard plus mouse, and this precludes the kernel > > > from providing a full interpretation. It would be wrong for it to even > > > try. X is the proper place to implement auto-repeat for X. > > > > No. > > > > hw is proper place to implement autorepeat, and along with some > > buffering, it has chance to work. Kernel is not real-time, and X are > > definitely not real-time, while autorepeat is real-time operation. > > > > It actually mostly works in ps/2 case. Buffer in hardware means that > > pretty big interrupt delays can be tolerated without problems. > > > > -- > > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > > -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html pomozte zachranit klanovicky les: http://www.ujezdskystrom.info/ -- 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/