Summary: | keyboard repeat in Xorg is fraudulently low after switching to 2.6 kernel | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Robert Forsman <gentoo> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel> |
Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | x11 |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Robert Forsman
2005-07-20 08:23:31 UTC
We'll see what kernel people have to say about that. Is the keyboard repeat speed outside of X (at a real console) just as slow? Yes, in a text console (actually, I use a graphical splash mode) the keyboard repeat is painfully slow. I haven't researched a tool to control this, but I'm sure if I did more console work I would be forced to hunt one down. On the off chance it is relevant, these are my lilo arguments to the kernel: video=vesafb:1280x1024-16@60 splash=silent,theme:Emergance quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 Is this a USB or PS/2 keyboard? Do you have any keyboards of the other type which you can test? Sometimes the keyboard repeat rate is configurable in the bios. Have you tried playing with any available settings there? This is the keyboard built-in to a ZV-5000 laptop. $ dmesg | grep -i key input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 The BIOS on this laptop has almost NO options. There is no setting for keyboard autorepeat. Ok. Are you able to test with any external keyboards (e.g. PS2 or USB)? I attempted to attach a USB keyboard. I did this after the laptop was booted. The external keyboard appeared to be non-functional in both the console and X11. I couldn't even get the lights to come on with numlock and capslock. The xorg.conf man page was useless. I tried some things from web pages discovered with google, but none of them made the keyboard work in X11. Please plug the keyboard in, and then attach the output of "dmesg". Also, please attach your kernel .config and the output of "lspci -v". I recompiled my kernel with CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT once I discovered it was missing. I currently have a USB keyboard attached. Holding down a key on the laptop's built-in keyboard autorepeats slowly. Holding down a key on the USB keyboard autorepeats quickly. This is the same in X and console. OK, thanks for testing that! Looks like we are going to have to file an upstream bug report. Please reproduce this on vanilla-sources-2.6.13_rc6 (soon to be released). If the problem still exists there, please save the output of "dmesg". Also, emerge dmidecode and capture the output of "dmidecode" too. Please attach those two outputs here. If it's not obvious to me, I'll point you on to filing an upstream bug. Thanks. Please reopen when you respond to comment #11 I did a quickie reboot into 2.6.13-rc6 (vanilla) and the slow keyrepeat was still a problem. I still need to capture a dmesg and dmidecode output. |