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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:01:40
Message-Id: h10bel$v3k$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30? by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > try this: Type some text, like
4 > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your
5 > cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to
6 > hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow.
7 > It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue
8 > moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the
9 > keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other
10 > words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the
11 > left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become
12 > aggravated. :P
13
14 Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from
15 Linus and I don't see the same thing here. I'm not running the gentoo
16 kernel, though, so things may not be comparable.
17
18 Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time
19 before today.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>