Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-11-02 Thread Dale
> > From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The X server does not expect the time to go backwards. Whatever > > you run on your computer while X is running, do not ever allow > > the time to go backwards. If time goes forwards, about the worst > > that will happen is the screensaver or

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-11-01 Thread Dave Reed
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: > >Perhaps there is a time issue when the clock is changed back 1 hour? > > The X server does not expect the time to go backwards. Whatever > you run on your computer while X is running, do not ever al

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-11-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: >Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:11:30 -0500 >From: Wade Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: ke

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 23:35, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: > > > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > > it this morning --

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Neil Thompson wrote: > Me too - to both. On my first gnome session after boot up I have no key > repeat. If I then log out and in again, the key repeat works again, but > sometimes too well, as Hal noted. I've been going mad trying to either > fix it or find a pattern -

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Bob Arendt
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Bob Arendt wrote: Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating keys. Any idea why and how to fix? For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Neil Thompson
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:17:48PM +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Wade Hampton wrote: [SNIPPAGE] > > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > > > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. T

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:17:48PM +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Wade Hampton wrote: > > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > >

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Bob Arendt wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: > > > >>On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > >>keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > >> > >>For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > >>it

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Mats Lidell
> Wade wrote: Wade> 2. I synced my clock with time-a.nist.gov using rdate (can't ntp Wade> due to firewall), then did /sbin/hwclock --systohc. Wade> 3. After this, my key repeat was broken (tested with mozilla and the Wade> shell). I have similar experience due to that I have to

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Klaasjan Brand
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:11, Wade Hampton wrote: > More info. > > Keyboard repeat now works. > > Perhaps there is a time issue when the clock is changed back 1 hour? > You could be on to something... I did the rdate -s thing too... Have to check my RH8 machine at home later. Klaasjan

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Wade Hampton
More info: On a RedHat 7.2 desktop, sometimes the key repeat stops and an hour or so later starts working again. This is without restarting X or doing anything to the computer other than typing and running programs like Xemacs. The machine is a dual 1G PIII with promise IDE RAID, RedHat 7.2 an

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Wade Hampton
More info. Keyboard repeat now works. 1. The laptop was suspended all weekend and did not get the daylight savings time to standard time change (hence 1 hour ahead). I believe I checked DST does apply when loading RH 8. 2. I synced my clock with time-a.nist.gov using rdate (can't

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Bob Arendt
Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating keys. Any idea why and how to fix? For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Klaasjan Brand
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Wade Hampton wrote: > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p >

Re: key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p > with RH 8.

key repeat stops on Psyche

2002-10-28 Thread Wade Hampton
On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating keys. Any idea why and how to fix? For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p with RH 8.0 loaded. X was running. -- Wade Hampton