Bug#404367: xserver-xorg: keypresses are occasionally multiplied dozens, hundreds or thousands of times

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

merge 404367 404368
thanks

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:18:04PM -0500, celejar wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.1.0-9
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Every now and then, without any pattern or triggering event that I can
> determine, CPU usage spikes to 100% and a keypress is multiplied dozens,
> hundreds or even thousands of times. This happens across all different
> contexts within X, such as typing text in an application or an xterm,
> using an application's hotkeys, and even using the WM's (Xfce) control
> keys. I have never seen the problem at the console (not even when X is
> running and I shift back to the console with alt-ctrl-F1), and I have
> never seen it under kernels in the 2.4.x series (currently
> kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 2.4.27-11), only under 2.6.x series kernels.

Could you please try downgrading xserver-xorg-core to the version in
testing, 2:1.1.1-11 and tell us if this makes the problem go away? Thank
you!

 - David Nusinow