Re: reassigning X server keybounce to kernel per XFree86 upstream
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is the same problem as that recently brought up on
> the Xpert list again. The problem Mac users see seems to be in the new
> input layer. Which is also definitely in the kernel though. :)
The problem referred to in this thread is certainly not one of unexpected
release events. As that thread's subject indicated, it's because release
events go missing. Since X does repeating on its own, a missing release
event could mean that autorepeating lasts forever.
However, I'm still not convinced that this is a kernel bug since no one
has given a report of seeing this on the console. Both the USB drivers
and the old ADB keyboard driver do repeating in software for the console
as well, so a missng release event should be visible there.
It's not difficult to convince me that it is a kernel bug, just print
out all the events you're getting from the hardware and show that there
are legitimate ones going missing. To see what X would get use
showkey -s, to see what the driver is getting just add some printks
to the right places. For ADB that simply involes setting dump_adb_input
to 1, for USB just add something to the right completion function in
your keyboard driver.
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