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