From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:04:29 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:58016 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:04:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:09:52 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , Vojtech Pavlik Subject: Re: input layer strangeness Message-ID: <20021002080952.B17477@ucw.cz> References: <3D9A74CF.8C8585E7@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D9A74CF.8C8585E7@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:23:43PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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