Re: Keys get stuck

[Fred .]

With so many people suffering from this bug (for a long time), and so
many bright people here, why doesn't it get fixed?

...other operating systems don't suffer from this bug...

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed 2008-03-12 21:14:56, David Newall wrote:
>  > Jiri Kosina wrote:
>  > > Very probably this is due to broken way how X themselves implement
>  > > auto-repeat, instead of using kernel-provided auto-repeat functionality.
>  >
>  > It should be said that X implements auto-repeat out of necessity.  While
>  > the kernel can report key down and up events, its further interpretation
>  > of those events is not appropriate.  Many combinations of events are
>  > possible, such as keyboard plus mouse, and this precludes the kernel
>  > from providing a full interpretation.  It would be wrong for it to even
>  > try.  X is the proper place to implement auto-repeat for X.
>
>  No.
>
>  hw is proper place to implement autorepeat, and along with some
>  buffering, it has chance to work. Kernel is not real-time, and X are
>  definitely not real-time, while autorepeat is real-time operation.
>
>  It actually mostly works in ps/2 case. Buffer in hardware means that
>  pretty big interrupt delays can be tolerated without problems.
>
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