From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261939AbTIWKvL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:51:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263260AbTIWKvL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:51:11 -0400 Received: from csl2.consultronics.on.ca ([204.138.93.2]:43933 "EHLO csl2.consultronics.on.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261939AbTIWKvK (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:51:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 06:51:08 -0400 From: Greg Louis To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Keyboard oddness. Message-ID: <20030923105107.GA1280@athame.dynamicro.on.ca> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200309201633.22414.rob@landley.net> <200309221506.08331.rob@landley.net> <20030923000647.A1128@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <200309221923.28519.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309221923.28519.rob@landley.net> Organization: Dynamicro Consulting Limited Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20030922 (Mon) at 1923:28 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 17:06, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:06:08PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > > > Any clues? (This happens to me at least once an hour...) > > > > Some people have been reporting missing key releases (maybe also you), > > but these are all missing key presses. It is easiest to blame the > > keyboard, even though I could imagine ways to blame the kernel. > > > > What about 2.4? > > 2.4 worked for me when I used it. I haven't booted 2.4 in weeks I've been missing keypresses for at least six weeks; at first I too thought the keyboard was the culprit, but I've anecdotal grumblings in email from several 2.4 users who thought the same of their own machines. Not very likely to be a keyboard-infesting virus out there... Frequency seems to be of the order of 0.001 on average. It might not be only keyboard interrupts that are being missed, but I have no hard data -- just a gut feeling that occasional ethernet packets are going astray too for no known good reason. Hasn't been enough of a problem to trigger serious investigation. -- | G r e g L o u i s | gpg public key: 0x400B1AA86D9E3E64 | | http://www.bgl.nu/~glouis | (on my website or any keyserver) | | http://wecanstopspam.org in signatures helps fight junk email. |