I have seen this also on my laptop(mach64) and my desktop(radeon). It just started happining recently.
--- Daniele Boffi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the beginning I thought is was a hardware problem, even if it started > immediately after I upgraded to CVS radeon driver. But then, I noticed > that the > problem I am describing below doesn't show up in text mode (vt 1-6), so > it must > be related with X. > > The (pretty annoying) problem is the following one: after pressing the > shift > key and releasing it, the next key I hit sometimes behave like the shift > key > were still pressed. The problem shows up in an interesting (?) and > sistematic > way.... it is not at all random! > Here are some examples. > Example 1 (bad): press the shift key (don't press any other key at the > same time), release the shift key, then press several times the "a" key, > this > is what you get: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa > Example 2 (bad): press and release the shift key twice (no other key > pressed > at the same time), then press several times the "a" key: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > in this situation, if I hit the shift key and release it once, then: > aaaaaaaa > Example 3 (good): now press and release the shift key three times: > aaaaaaaaaa > Example 4 (bad): press and release shift key four times: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa > (back to example 1) > Example 5 (good): if I type "Daniele" like it should be... everything is > OK. > > Similar problems with other special keys (ctrl, alt). > > Is this a known problem (I couldn't find it in the archives). Any hint > on how > to fix it? > > BTW... I upgraded to CVS to take advantage of the suspend/resume > capabilities... > but I cannot resume correctly (swsusp) if using dri (with no > acceleration > everything is fine). > > Hope you can help me, > > Daniele > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
