On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Wade Hampton wrote: > On some of our RH 7.3 and 8.0 boxes, X will stop repeating > keys. Any idea why and how to fix? > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p > with RH 8.0 loaded. X was running. > -- > Wade Hampton Interesting. I find that occasionally, keys don't repeat. If I lift my finger and try the key again, it usually works fine. I also notice that very infrequently, if I press a key with the control key held down, the character will print instead of doing the control-key action. Trying the key combo again usually works fine. This happens on my Latitude but not on any of my desktops. Here is a wild-assed guess (maybe sombody can tell me if I am talking through my hat or not). There are a couple of bugs in Bugzilla referring to the fact that real time clock on some laptops runs slow. There was a thread in one of the Red Hat lists (but I can't recall which now) that explained that this was a consequence of the GNOME battery applet masking interrupts while getting the battery status. Now that I think of it, if this is correct, then it seems like it might be related to this problem. My thought is that the pressing of the control key or the interrupt that causes the generation of the repeated character might be being dropped while the battery applet is running. Experts: does this make any sense at all? -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@clemson.edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
