Re: Bad autorepeat problems in 2.5.75

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:47:55 +0200


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:22:51AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have bad problems with autorepeat. When switching consoles with
> alt-left / alt-right it sometimes skips wrong number of consoles, and
> sometimes it just keeps repeating even through I already released a
> key.
>
> Syslog complains:
>
> Jul 15 00:15:52 amd kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> 0x1cb, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> Jul 15 00:16:21 amd kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> 0x1cb, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> Jul 15 00:19:02 amd kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> 0x1cd, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> Jul 15 00:20:04 amd kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> 0x1cd, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
>
> Its vesafb -> switching consoles is not exactly fast, maybe that has
> some role?

Probably keyboard interrupts get lost. Bad. Can you track with DEBUG
enabled in i8042.c?

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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