On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Paul Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if it is from kernel 2.6.30 or if something else changed, > but my keyboard does not behave as normal. It seems like the "key up" > signal from the previous key is causing the repeat of the current key > to get interrupted. This happens everywhere, not only in X, but in > console as well. > > For example, try this: Type some text, like > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and then hold left arrow. Your > cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to > hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow. > It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue > moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the > keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other > words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the > left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become > aggravated. :P > > Has anyone else noticed this? I hope it's not a new "feature" :) Maybe > later tonight I'll try to go back to 2.6.29 and see if this truly was > the thing that brought on this change. >
Today's xorg update (and subsequent rebuilding of x11-driver/*) has fixed the problem. So it looks like it wasn't kernel-related at all, but a result of some xorg update in the 2 months since my previous reboot. :)
