Re: PROBLEM: keyboard shift not registered under fast typing or auto-repeat

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 07:56:22PM -0400, Carl Nygard wrote:

> > > Kernel doesn't register shift state when typing quickly.
> > > Example, 'ls *' shows up as 'ls 8' when typed fast.
> 
> Typing quickly: 
> 
>      ## ^--- Shift-up event
> (and the Shift-down event was never seen)
>
> typing slower,
> 
>     ## ^---- Shift-down event
>     ## ^---- Shift-up event
>
> Is this potentially a hardware problem
> (i.e. should I return my laptop, because this is too d*mn annoying)?

You can try to decide by running a 2.4 kernel on this laptop.
If also 2.4 fails it may be hardware. If not, we must fix 2.6.



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