On 2009-06-30, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > 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. [...] >> 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. AFAICT, my problem happens with equal frequency for all keys. > Then look at all places where X11 key codes are redefined i.e. > xmodmap is called. The problem isn't that a key produces the wrong result. The problem is that sometimes a key will be "missed" and sometimes a key will "stick" until another key is pressed. It only seems to happen under heavy load (e.g. when compiling programs), and it's now happening on multiple machines. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Make me look like at LINDA RONSTADT again!! visi.com