[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#456763: base: keyboard random repeat

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 456763 linux-2.6
thanks

On Monday 17 December 2007 19:08, David Gauchard wrote:
> Symptoms:
>
> The keyboard behaviour is usually correct, but when I press a
> key with involves some cpu calculation (more than displaying
> the key), then the systems behaves like if the key was not
> released (at the time I release it). It is seen released
> "later".
>
> Some examples: the key is ctrl-T under firefox (I get tons of
> new tabs), or / (slash) under firefox (when searching in a big
> page), ctrl+ (this is horrible, I get a one huge letter after a
> while on my firefox window with this), 'enter' in dselect on
> the search line (in a search pressing / in the package list), ...
>
> This does not happen in text-mode-virtual-console (with
> dselect).
>
> This happens ONLY with 2.6 (any version from 2.6.15 up to
> 2.6.18), I have NO problem with an old 2.4.27 (compiled
> myself).
>
> This happens with PS/2 keyboards and USB keyboards.

This is really strange... 

Kernel maintainers, please read the full bug report, I've shortened it here a 
bit...


regards,
	Holger
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