repeated key press events?

[Alexandre Oliva]

I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on both
my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
whatever :-)

Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
failing in this odd way at the same time.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, GCC Team, Red Hat

[Féliciano Matias]

Le dim 03/08/2003 à 10:45, Alexandre Oliva a écrit :
>  On Aug  2, 2003, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  No USB kbd here.  This is a relatively cheap PS/2 keyboard on the
>  desktop (a custom-built Athlon/Asus-A7V133 box), and the built-in
>  keyboard on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  The fact that it happens on both
>  makes me thing it's not the hardware, but something in the software.
>  The fact that I don't use other machines and that it happens so
>  infrequently makes it hard for me to tell the exact conditions in
>  which it happens.  It *might* to have something to do with heavy disk
>  access, but I can't tell for sure. 
Same problem here (PS/2, athlon, K7T266). I have this problem since
RH8.0.

-- 
Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr&gt;

[Gordon Messmer]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on
> both
>  my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
>  arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
>  letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
>  whatever :-)
>  
>  Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
>  but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
>  failing in this odd way at the same time.
>   

This is Red Hat bug #76959

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76959

A fix was contributed by michal maruska to the XFree86 team, and will be 
included in XFree86 4.4.0.

The patch should be available to Red Hat, should they choose to import 
it into their src.rpm.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug  2, 2003, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

> > I've gotten this before on RHL9, with a USB keyboard. It
> doesn't seem
> > to be happening recently though.
> > 
> > It could be kernel, X, or the desktop env, pretty hard to track down
> > especially when it's not reproduceable. 
>  The older uhci USB code would repeat events - I saw that with USB
> mice
>  too. That seems to be fixed. The other case I know about is toshiba laptops
>  but we *should* have a workaround in place that stops this occuring. 
No USB kbd here.  This is a relatively cheap PS/2 keyboard on the
desktop (a custom-built Athlon/Asus-A7V133 box), and the built-in
keyboard on a Dell Inspiron 8000.  The fact that it happens on both
makes me thing it's not the hardware, but something in the software.
The fact that I don't use other machines and that it happens so
infrequently makes it hard for me to tell the exact conditions in
which it happens.  It *might* to have something to do with heavy disk
access, but I can't tell for sure.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, GCC Team, Red Hat

[Florian Hines]

I get this both on severn and on 9.0, im on a Dell 200 SmartStep notebook.

And it gets really annoying lol.

Florian

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[Alan Cox]

>  I've gotten this before on RHL9, with a USB keyboard. It
> doesn't seem
>  to be happening recently though.
>  
>  It could be kernel, X, or the desktop env, pretty hard to track down
>  especially when it's not reproduceable. 
The older uhci USB code would repeat events - I saw that with USB mice
too. That seems to be fixed. The other case I know about is toshiba laptops
but we *should* have a workaround in place that stops this occuring.

[Michael Schwendt]

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On 02 Aug 2003 12:58:19 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>  I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on
> both
>  my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
>  arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
>  letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
>  whatever :-)
>  
>  Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
>  but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
>  failing in this odd way at the same time. 
I've seen someone posting about it to a message board. But I've not
pursued it further because it sounded like misconfiguration or
hardware problems. It was about Shrike, not Severn.

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[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:15:37AM -0500, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
>  On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:58, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  > I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on both
>  > my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
>  > arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
>  > letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
>  > whatever :-)
>  > 
>  > Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
>  > but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
>  > failing in this odd way at the same time.
>  
>  I've seen this as well but I can't swear that it's not due to my
>  physical keyboard (el cheapo $12 Fry's special). The fact that someone
>  else sees it makes me think that it's not.
>  
>  I can't really reproduce it, though, and it's only happened to me a
>  couple of times. 
I've gotten this before on RHL9, with a USB keyboard. It doesn't seem
to be happening recently though.

It could be kernel, X, or the desktop env, pretty hard to track down
especially when it's not reproduceable.

Havoc

[Kyle Maxwell]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 10:58, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on
> both
>  my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
>  arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
>  letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
>  whatever :-)
>  
>  Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
>  but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
>  failing in this odd way at the same time. 
I've seen this as well but I can't swear that it's not due to my
physical keyboard (el cheapo $12 Fry's special). The fact that someone
else sees it makes me think that it's not.

I can't really reproduce it, though, and it's only happened to me a
couple of times.
-- 
Kyle Maxwell <kylem(a)xwell.org&gt;