Re: Sluggish typing

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 10:12:16 EST


On 1/9/06, Danny Brow <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After trying numerous kernel versions I've had very sluggish typing in
> the console since 2.6.13-rcX (can't remember when it started). But I
> have to hit a key twice, cursor up or down does not show history, some
> times it does nothing, other times it acts like I hit tab-tab. I'm
> running 2.6.15 on 4 system, 2.6.15-rc2 on my laptop and they all have
> this problem. I have 2 servers right now with the same problem, I think
> they are 2.6.14.2. All custom configs. All the systems are intel
> p4/pd/centrino, various chipsets, i845, i875p, i925. Is their a patch or
> work around for this problem. I have spoke with a few other people with
> the same problem.
>
> Also sometimes it stops and all is fine for about 10 seconds, irq
> polling issue?
>

Try booting with "usb-handoff" on the kernel command line with 2.6.14
kernel. Unfortunately it seems that this parameter got broken in
2.6.15.

--
Dmitry
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