reassign 443250 xserver-xorg-core tags 443250 + patch thanks I can confirm that the patch from Naoki Hamada found at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12858 fixes this annoying bug. Patch included here for reference: diff -ur xorg-server-1.4.orig/dix/getevents.c xorg-server-1.4/dix/getevents.c --- xorg-server-1.4.orig/dix/getevents.c Thu Sep 6 09:47:48 2007 +++ xorg-server-1.4/dix/getevents.c Fri Oct 19 16:56:09 2007 @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static Bool key_is_down(DeviceIntPtr pDev, int key_code) { - return pDev->key->postdown[key_code >> 3] >> (key_code & 7); + return pDev->key->postdown[key_code >> 3] & (1 << (key_code & 7)); } /**