On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:38:41AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:FWIW:
So it seems likely to me that this is a kernel bug, somewhere, and theSomewhere around 2.6.29-30 various things went funny in the keyboard
TTY layer seems like a good place to look (OK, a horrible place, but a
*likely* place).
layer for me - notably characters "bleeding" across console switches.
What do you mean by "bleeding"? Are you sure it is not autorepeat
kicking in?
I'm about to try reverting the suggested commit and will report back. IX doesn't touch the pty layer. It touches vt (extensively) and the input
see this failure about once a day, so I'll give it three days to go
wrong and then (if it doesn't) will presume it works and so inform you.
(Of course with this commit reverted Emacsen start dropping data from
their ptys, and as bad luck would have it I live in (X)Emacs, but that's
on a different machine! so I can have my compile buffer data *and* not
destroy X ;} )
layers. It's vt/kbd access is also very raw so bypasses much of that
layer. That isn't to say tty isn't the cause but look for input layer
changes too.