Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 06:49:35PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> After booting into 2.6.9-rc3 release kernel, I am seeing strange and 
> annoying keyboard repeat behavior.
> 
> If I hold down a single key, while in X, the character will repeat at 
> the expected (2.6.9-rc2 and prior) rate... for 1 second.
> 
> After 1 second, the keyboard repeat rate slows to half or more.
> 
> Can we please fix this?  Config attached.

How does it behave on the console? The problem is that X generates its
own software autorepeat and ignores what the kernel feeds it. So I
suppose this might be more a gettimeofday or scheduling problem than one
with the input layer.


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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