Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:58:14PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> >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.
> 
> 
> Confirmed, console keyboard repeat does not show this behavior.
> 
> However...  this behavior does goes away when I boot an earlier kernel.
 
Can you try to replace just the drivers/input sub-tree?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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