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

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Message-ID: <20080226215812.GX1287@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:58:12 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
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, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:05:36PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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.

Yes console is always fine.

--
Len Sorensen
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