Unexpected keyyyyboard repeatssss, kernel latency issue?
Marko Vojinovic
vvmarko at panet.co.yu
Wed Jul 19 13:28:25 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:59, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:34 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I've seen similar faults, from time to time. If it's a BIOS bug, why
> does it only show up on Linux? And has anybody seen whether turning off
> key repeat, or changing the speeds/intervals, in the BIOS makes any
> difference.
FWIW, I have lived with the similar issue, albeit with WinXP client under
vmware workstation on a FC2 and FC4 hosts. The client falsely believes that
the key is still pressed and repeats without stopping until I press another
key again. But does not happen the host FC.
At first I thought that this behavior is due to wireless keyboard I happen to
use, but after some thought it became obvious that it is a software issue.
No idea why, however...
Best regards, :-)
Marko
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