Re: Another keyboard woes with 2.6.0...

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 17:50:34 EST


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> In Petr's case it looks like his switch produces a single well-defined
> byte (0x41) when switching. What about you? Do you get garbage at the
> moment of switching, or always the same code(s)?
> Do you only get the spurious repeat when switching?
> Andrew gets spurious repeats together with mouse activity. Do you?
>
> I am especially interested in cases where people can reproduce
> an unwanted key repeat. The question is: is this a bug in our timer code
> or use of timers, or did the keyboard never send the key release code?
>
> (#define DEBUG in i8042.c)

Hi Andries, sorry for not following up. i'll enable and test this
immediately, my case is a bit hard to reproduce (a matter of days) but if
you'd like to see a capture from KVM switching i can do that.

Follow up coming shortly...
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