Re: [Must-fix] Keyboard occasionally endlessly repeating keys

john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
25 Jun 2003 10:52:37 -0700


On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:07, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 24 June 2003 15:58:04 -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > Assuming you're still seeing this, does booting w/ "clock=pit" resolve
> > the problem? If so could you send me more info about the system? (is
> > speed step enabled, etc?)
>
> Problem appears to be from hardware, Vojtech Pavlik helped me a bit to
> track it down. Hardware occasionally doesn't send the key release
> signal after a key pressed signel.
>
> System is IBM Thinkpad R30, CPU permanently running on low speed
> (700MHz), no speed step (unsupported chipset).
>
> Should I still test w/ clock=pit?

Not if its resolved for you. I was just seeing a number of time related
keyboard problems on laptops (kbd repeat rates too fast)and wanted to
see if you were affected as well.

thanks
-john

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