Re: Strange 2.6.9-rc3 keyboard repeat behavior

[Jeff Garzik]

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.

	Jeff


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