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

john stultz (johnstul@us.ibm.com)
24 Jun 2003 15:58:04 -0700


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:24, Jörn Engel wrote:
> After having upgraded my notebook to 2.5.72, I noticed a rare problem,
> that occurs about twice a day, maybe more. After pressing a key, it
> gets repeated endlessly until the next key is pressed. When typing
> fast, it is quite possible to cover up a couple of these, as the
> repeats appear to happen at the set keyboard rates. Problem never
> occured with any 2.4 kernel.

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?)

thanks
-john

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