Unexpected keyyyyboard repeatssss, kernel latency issue?

David M Burgess davidburgess at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 19 00:07:08 UTC 2006


Are you running a xen kernel?

I've had a lot of these problems with xen.

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 01:38 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:34:37PM -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 7/18/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >since upgrading FC5's kernel my keyboard seems someeeeetimes to get
> > >stuck only to (falsly) register a too long pressed key. The above
> > >"sometimes" just happened the way I describe.
> > >
> > >The system is otherwise not on load or doing anything relevant. In
> > >fact it's mostly idling.
> > >
> > >The previous (working) kernel was 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5. I can't say for
> > >sure whether it's the kernel update that broke it or something else,
> > >but checking rpm -qa --last doesn't reveal anything else that could
> > >mess with my keyboarrrrrd (the r's are also genouine).
> > 
> > This is usually a BIOS bug, although I've seen reports that it can be
> > worked around with some kernel boot parameters.  I'll guess that
> > you're using a dual core CPU in an Asus motherboard?
> 
> No, it's a plain old Pentium M 1.5GHz, and it never had these
> latency/lag issues before.
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