From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: input layer strangeness
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:09:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021002080952.B17477@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D9A74CF.8C8585E7@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> It's been doing this ever since the input layer changes:
>
> - open a few xterms
> - press the spacebar, leave pressed
> - start waggling the mouse about
> - stop pressing spacebar, keep waggling the mouse about,
> across the xterms
>
> The keystrokes *never* stop coming. Just the continuous mouse
> activity causes a stream of keyboard input, at seemingly the normal
> autorepeat rate. I can keep them coming for 30 seconds, just by
> moving the mouse.
Do they stop coming when you stop moving the mouse or they don't stop at
all? The first would be quite interesting, the second would probably be
a missed key release event due to keyboard controller overload by the
mouse.
> In practice, it's irritating because it's quite easy to get a
> stream of erroneous input dumped into the wrong windows.
>
> It's a vanilla dual pentium with an AT keyboard and a PS/2
> mouse.
Can you check if it happens also on UP? Just want to know if it might be
a SMP issue ...
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 4:23 Andrew Morton
2002-10-02 6:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2002-10-02 6:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-07 13:16 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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