[gentoo-user] Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?

[gentoo-user] Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?

[Paul Hartman]

I don't know if it is from kernel 2.6.30 or if something else changed,
but my keyboard does not behave as normal. It seems like the "key up"
signal from the previous key is causing the repeat of the current key
to get interrupted. This happens everywhere, not only in X, but in
console as well.

For example, try this: Type some text, like
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your
cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue
moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the
keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other
words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the
left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become
aggravated. :P

Has anyone else noticed this? I hope it's not a new "feature" :) Maybe
later tonight I'll try to go back to 2.6.29 and see if this truly was
the thing that brought on this change.

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?

[walt]

Paul Hartman wrote:

> try this: Type some text, like
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your
> cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
> hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
> It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue
> moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the
> keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other
> words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the
> left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become
> aggravated. :P

Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from
Linus and I don't see the same thing here.  I'm not running the gentoo
kernel, though, so things may not be comparable.

Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time
before today.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:00 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> try this: Type some text, like
>> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your
>> cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
>> hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
>> It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue
>> moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the
>> keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other
>> words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the
>> left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become
>> aggravated. :P
>
> Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from
> Linus and I don't see the same thing here.  I'm not running the gentoo
> kernel, though, so things may not be comparable.
>
> Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time
> before today.

Apparently I do it all the time and never realized it. It affects all
repeatable keys, not just the arrows, and it is driving me crazy. :)
Thanks for testing! I will keep searching...

I will also add that I am using a USB keyboard, in case it matters.

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if it is from kernel 2.6.30 or if something else changed,
> but my keyboard does not behave as normal. It seems like the "key up"
> signal from the previous key is causing the repeat of the current key
> to get interrupted. This happens everywhere, not only in X, but in
> console as well.
>
> For example, try this: Type some text, like
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your
> cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
> hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
> It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue
> moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the
> keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other
> words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the
> left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become
> aggravated. :P
>
> Has anyone else noticed this? I hope it's not a new "feature" :) Maybe
> later tonight I'll try to go back to 2.6.29 and see if this truly was
> the thing that brought on this change.
>

Today's xorg update (and subsequent rebuilding of x11-driver/*) has
fixed the problem. So it looks like it wasn't kernel-related at all,
but a result of some xorg update in the 2 months since my previous
reboot. :)