Re: reassigning X server keybounce to kernel per XFree86 upstream
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:47:59AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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.
I definitely see this in the console: in emacs all the time, in mutt, and in
lynx. I haven't had it occur in readline or bash. It's often the arrow keys
which I hold down; and I do hold left and right arrow down quite often while
traversing a command line but haven't observed it.
> 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.
Is there a way to monitor it continuously to a log? This happens perhaps
2 or 3 times a week; so I would just need to notice it and then go check
the log.
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