From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269400AbTHOQe7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:34:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269334AbTHOQNE (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:13:04 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:59269 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269400AbTHOQJc (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:09:32 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PBR Streetgang Message-ID: References: <16188.27810.50931.158166@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20030815094604.B2784@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030815105802.GA14836@ucw.cz> <20030815123641.GA7204@win.tue.nl> <20030815124318.GA15478@ucw.cz> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org vojtech@suse.cz said: > be doing) PS/2 genre of keyboards. For USB for example you don't get an > interrupt and a scancode per keypress. You get the current keyboard > state. Then how am I getting infinitely repeating keys with a USB keyboard? I recently switched to a kinesis ergo USB keyboard, and I had to disable autorepeat in X because I had problems with keys occasionally repeating infinitely until I hit something else to make it stop. I haven't tracked down whether that's a hardware problem or in software. Are you aware of that happening with USB keyboards? Jason