From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752683AbZIJQtP (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751398AbZIJQtO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:14 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]:10550 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751258AbZIJQtN (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:49:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=nGQwSmMeI16tUQPz5bwzTRzAlXhsJ8OY41pv3Zgh8Xti/aDPdO5/Oy6WkxpwDInYPx yrPqQ9NmoRfTG52417YNPR03/QTEhcBdxxD30Y0+iavQSNBOmW0acrhDUw+Y4XFKn3qO q4dTKY+rlQgKshy8bSFgoQo7g5svOd5U3gjQo= From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andreas Mohr Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc6 (yeah, I know...): weird tty / X.org state currently Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:49:06 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.31; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20090910103126.GA17742@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20090910165837.50544526EC9@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20090910164232.GA27404@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090910164232.GA27404@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20090910172244.71282526EC9@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:42:32 am Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:25:00AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Thursday 10 September 2009 03:31:26 am Andreas Mohr wrote: > > > Possibly the kernel's control key state got stuck in a weird state, > > > perhaps due to some input layer race conditions or so. > > > > > > Or is it X.org's input handling which is responsible for Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > > etc. combos? I wouldn't think so... > > > > X is solely responsible for handling input when active. It switches > > console in RAW mode which bypasses kernel processing) and does it's > > own thing. This includes switching VTs upon Ctrl-ALt-Fx. > > OK, but what's puzzling is that there's no indication whatsoever that > there's any broken Ctrl activity (neither in konsole nor in a tty), > yet the tty gets switched readily as soon as only Alt-Fx gets pressed in > X.org. > > IOW (unless that's wrong) you're saying that it's X.org which has > a broken Ctrl key state (but solely when doing the Alt-Fx switch, > _not_ when doing Ctrl-L or regular letter input), not the kernel. > > If so, would this problem warrant notifying X.org upstream, > or is it likely to be fixed in newer X.org releases? I don't follow X development unfortunately but I think it is a good idea to ask there. -- Dmitry