On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:38:41AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > So it seems likely to me that this is a kernel bug, somewhere, and the > > TTY layer seems like a good place to look (OK, a horrible place, but a > > *likely* place). > > Somewhere around 2.6.29-30 various things went funny in the keyboard > 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. I > > 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 ;} ) > > X doesn't touch the pty layer. It touches vt (extensively) and the input > 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. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
