On Die, 2002-08-27 at 22:09, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 19 Aug, this message from Vincent Lefevre echoed through cyberspace: > > Sometimes, when I release a key after autorepeat, the system doesn't > > notice it and autorepeat goes on until I hit another key. This has > > already occurred in both emacs (with its own interface under X) and > > xterm, never in the console (but I don't use it very much). This can > > occur with either keys corresponding to simple characters (like '-') > > or arrow keys for instance. > > > > Has anyone had similar problems? > > As you have found out ;-), many people have seen this problem, and it > has been around for a long time. > > It is most probably a problem in the ADB driver. Chris, on your iMac, is > that with a USB keyboard? If yes, then it gets stranger...
I've seen it with USB keyboards. > Other than that, it seems nobody has bothered enough to trace the bug to > its root. AFAIR it started with the new input layer, but of course it could merely be coincidence that I never noticed it before. The first most interesting question is probably if it really doesn't happen in console (if so, it's probably an X server bug, otherwise kernel); I use the console too rarely to tell. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
