Bug 18628 – keyboard repeat problem in 2.4.20 kernel on Toshiba laptops

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Cowie 2003-04-02 06:38:22 UTC]

On my new Gentoo system, a Toshiba Portege 4010 [Pentium III 933 MHz] everything 
worked fine in console mode. But when I fired up X Windows (regardless of GNOME 
or just a simple xterm or even xfconfig) I got a brutal key repeat problem.




I'd type "hello world" and get "heellooo woorrllld" which needless to say is 
very annoying.




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After much searching and trying things, I finally hear rumour that "an Alan Cox 
kernel has something about that". I finally found, in 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 (I think) 
a patch that seemed to refer to something close to my problem. I applied it, 
rebuild, rebooted, and the key repeat problem was gone.




Although I'm not sure how many platforms have this bug, it seems a reasonable 
thing to suggest for inclusion (or at least being left in the bug system for 
reference) as I'm not sure if this particular ac gem will make it to mainstream.




AfC






Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2)


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System uname: 2.4.20-acpi-r9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M   
933MHz


GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.
org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"


CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"


CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"


PORTDIR="/usr/portage"


DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"


PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"


PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"


PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""


USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts crypt cups encode gif jpeg mpeg ncurses nls png 
quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline svga guile X sdl 
tcpd pam ssl python esd imlib oggvorbis opengl gnome -alsa -avi -gpm -kde 
-libg++ maildir -mikmod -motif -qt -qtmt dga doc dvd gd gphoto2 gtk imap java 
ldap libwww mmx mozilla pda pdflib perl samba sse tcltk tiff truetype usb bonobo 
evo gtkhtml"


COMPILER="gcc3"


CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"


CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"


CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"


ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"


MAKEOPTS="-j2"


AUTOCLEAN="yes"


SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"


FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Andrew Cowie 2003-04-02 06:40:24 UTC]

Created attachment 10118 [details, diff]
patch to fix keyboard key repeat problem on Toshiba laptops

patch, synthesised from 2.4.21-pre4-ac4, against 2.4.20-acpi, though I believe
it's applicable to the generic kernel as -acpi is pretty generic.

[Comment 2 effbiai 2003-11-25 04:21:11 UTC]

here is a fix for the problem: http://www.spierrel.freesurf.fr/ar01s07.html

[Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2003-12-04 15:35:32 UTC]

Do you still get this on any of the recent -ck // -gs // -vanilla // -gentoo kernels?

[Comment 4 Andrew Cowie 2003-12-04 17:30:36 UTC]

I will have an opportunity to try some new kernels in about 3 weeks. I'll let you know how it goes. AfC

[Comment 5 Andrew Cowie 2003-12-07 00:33:47 UTC]

As requested, I've tried on a bunch of kernels. Does the problem exist in:

<PRE>

gentoo-sources        2.4.20-gentoo    YES, STILL BROKEN
gs-sources            2.4.23-pre8-gss  OK!!!
development-sources   2.6.0-test11     OK!!!

</PRE>

Which seems pretty good. You still need to use that patch I attached to this bug if you're using gentoo-sources, but otherwise, seems ok.

[Comment 6 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2003-12-07 07:06:55 UTC]

Thanks, I'll commit this in...

[Comment 7 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2004-02-08 08:07:32 UTC]

Patch is in gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r11. Thanks!