Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 17:02:16 EST


On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > This could be caused by the fact that as far as I know, X are not using
> > kernel-autorepeat, but they are handling it themselves, right? So if their
> > sense of time (probably due to some change of kernel timekeeping) gets
> > wrong, the autorepeat in X might also get wrong.
> > It would be nice to know if when you hit the situation when autorepeat
> > goes strange in X, if it is still OK in console.
> Yes console is always fine.

OK, so what very probably happened is that CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED somehow
schedules X server in a way which confuses its sense of time, and
therefore makes autorepeat buggy ... ?

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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