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On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have |
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> started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown |
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> event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes |
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> it's a keyup event -- in which case the key repeats |
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> indefinitely until another key is pressed. |
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> It _seems_ to happen more when the CPU is busy, but I can't get |
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> it to happen predictably. It stated on all of my machines |
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> within the last week or two. They don't all get updated at the |
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> same time, but it seems to have started on each one after a |
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> recent udpate. |
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> |
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> I haven't been able to find anything that seems relevent in |
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> bugzilla. |
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> |
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> Has anybody else seen this problem pop up recently? |
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Yes and No, |
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I had similar problems but completely deterministic. |
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When the keyboard is handled by hal it produces different keycodes then |
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before. |
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In my case the PgDn key now generates a code which was previously |
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generated by the key right to the right Windows key. |
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And in my .Xmodmap I had this code defined as Mode_switch which |
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made the key "dead" in my editor. |
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Try using xev to see which codes are generated by the keys which |
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cause you problems. Then look at all places where X11 key codes are |
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redefined i.e. xmodmap is called. |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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