On Aug 2, 2003, Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> 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.
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Alexandre Oliva, GCC Team, Red Hat