Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754900AbYC1Lcv (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:32:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753433AbYC1Lcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:32:41 -0400 Received: from qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.64]:56131 "EHLO QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753481AbYC1Lcl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:32:41 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=LaIlogIifS_sgoDqLzQA:9 a=S9Tposc9MQ2SBDDn4PY32h64udsA:4 a=3I_whO4B8K8A:10 Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue? From: Chris Holvenstot To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Kernel , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: <1202302978.9058.13.camel@popeye> <1202305740.9058.22.camel@popeye> <1202318666.6406.13.camel@popeye> <1202381094.6179.0.camel@popeye> <1202396868.6087.8.camel@popeye> <1202402704.6087.12.camel@popeye> <1202448975.6538.2.camel@popeye> <1202553464.6386.7.camel@popeye> <1206703226.7112.43.camel@popeye> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:34:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1206704073.7112.51.camel@popeye> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1396 Lines: 43 Juri - I think that you are correct - and have one - small - piece of subtle evidence to support that position. While it has been a while since I have seen the repeating key issue, from time to time I have noted that there is a lag of a few seconds between the keyboard and the screen. There is no way an old man lke myself is out-typeing his hardware. This is on a lightly loaded, dual core system with a few gig of memory. Thanks Chris On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:24 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > > > I have not see the problem with "repeating keys" for a while now - since > > it was a "soft" failure I can not specify exactly which build was the > > last I saw it on. > > I am currently running 2.6.25-rc7-git2 > > If you have questions abount the configuration of my kernel my config > > file is attached. > > Hi, > > I think that this was one of the issues that were caused by > CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED, which were fixed a few weeks ago. > > Still, the real issue is in Xorg, that their autorepeat code is very > unhappy when X process doesn't get scheduled often enough. > > Thanks, > -- 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/