I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 29 Apr 2011, at 14:12, james_mcl <124...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Okay... that last point needed a comment of its own - now to look at > the > other issues raised. > > 1.) "Touch base about this with Ajax to find if he has any > experimental branches, or if he knows if anyone else is working on > the problem, and how you can help." - It never occurred to me that > any experimental threaded branches might exist! I'll be in touch > with him, thanks for that. > (Though, given the bug's intermittency, I don't think anyone's going > to have a reliable, repetitive test case as described - it'll be a > matter of seeing if intervals of x days pass without the symptom > recurring.) > > 2.) "Maybe Wayland will gain a better system for handling keyboard > events" - Bryce, can you possibly supply the name of any particular > dev > who would be in a position to know whether keyboard events in Wayland > are being handled in a similar way to X? The possibility that this bug > might survive all the way into X's successor is quite a horrific one! > > 3.) For other people who, like me, are trying Marius's workaround - > you > should know that he had to file another bug, in that changing the > keyboard delay setting in /etc/kbd/config had no effect (meaning, > presumably, that he had to change it in the terminal every time he > booted up.) > > (Actually, I'm noticing it seems to have created a new bug in my > case - > pressing Enter once seems to be interpreted as pressing Enter several > times on some occasions - although the key repeat stops by itself in > less than a second.) > > 4.) Regarding post 313 - well, my keyboard certainly goes crazy daily, > although I think this is probably true for most of us here. So I > guess I > might have a "HW-specific oddity", though not one affecting my Hardy > partition. > > So, to repeat my question in post 301, to file a new bug: > > "Would it be sufficient to run > > ubuntu-bug xorg > > referencing bug 124406, and then > > apport-collect (number of new bug) > > or is there any more information you would need that would not be > supplied by this? (if so, please specify what this would be.)" > > 5.) In response to Post 310's assertions regarding the severity of the > bug: > > "there could conceivably be some rare scenarios where this bug could > cause some severe issue like a stuck delete key deleting files or > whatnot" > > When the issue happens at least once daily, the question is not so > much > whether this could be rare as how many days/weeks/months the user has > before it happens - which eventually it must. > > And, for versions of the bug in which pressing another key doesn't > stop > the repeating, it is *at least* as significant as the X crash/tie-dyed > monitor, as the only way to resolve the issue is to hold down the > Power > button. > > 6.) Thanks for your help Bryce! > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of > Papercutters, which is subscribed to One Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124406 > > Title: > Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat > > Status in GNU Emacs: > Invalid > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: > Invalid > Status in The Linux Kernel: > Confirmed > Status in X.Org X server: > In Progress > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: > Won't Fix > Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > Status in “linux” source package in Jaunty: > Won't Fix > Status in “xorg-server” source package in Jaunty: > Invalid > Status in Gentoo Linux: > New > > Bug description: > Keyboard keys such as the arrows, Alt-F4, PageUp/PageDown, etc. often > get 'stuck' and continue being 'clicked' even after they are > physically released. For example when clicking Alt-F4, sometimes it > gets stuck so all the windows are closed instead of just one. > > My configuration is Feisty + Xgl + Compiz Fusion. My previous > configuration was Edgy + Xgl + Beryl, where this didn't happen. > Others > have reported the same problem without using either Xgl or Compiz. > > The keyboard itself isn't the problem. When dual-booting to Windows, > everything works fine. Also, the problem happens with two different > keyboards (internal laptop, external USB). > > My best guess is that the problem occurs at time of high system load. > Somehow during these times the key-release signal gets lost and the > key-press is repeated indefinitely. This happens more often with > Compiz configurations because Compiz tends to increase system load. > It > also happens more often with power-hungry apps like Firefox and > Acrobat Reader for similar reasons. > > PS: When the keys would repeat all input devices would be locked up. > ie. mouse won't move, clicks don't do anything, keyboard presses > don't > register. Then when it becomes unstuck, the mouse moves around and > everything. Hope this helps. > > See also this forum thread for other people with the same problem: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432057 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124406 Title: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs/+bug/124406/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
