linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802261602030.30955@jikos.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:05:36 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc:	Chris Holvenstot <cholvenstot@...cast.net>, elendil@...net.nl,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Hmm, I have been seeing repeated keys a lot under X on my athlon 700, 
> but mainly when I have firefox running (which is of course quite a load 
> on the poor old thing).  This has been going on for probably the last 
> year or so.  I thought it was just the machine getting weird, although 
> whenever it wasn't running firefox or other memory/cpu heavy loads it 
> seemed fine.

This could be caused by the fact that as far as I know, X are not using 
kernel-autorepeat, but they are handling it themselves, right? So if their 
sense of time (probably due to some change of kernel timekeeping) gets 
wrong, the autorepeat in X might also get wrong.

It would be nice to know if when you hit the situation when autorepeat 
goes strange in X, if it is still OK in console.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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