120493 – repeated characters from keypress with AMD64 and SMP kernel

Bug 120493 - repeated characters from keypress with AMD64 and SMP kernel

Summary: repeated characters from keypress with AMD64 and SMP kernel

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120362

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2006-01-26 18:15 UTC by Alan Jackson
Modified:	2006-01-26 19:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alan Jackson 2006-01-26 18:15:30 UTC

I have this problem both with Redhat and with Gentoo. If I run the SMP kernel, then I get repeated characters under X from keypresses. The mouse also tends to go haywire. Running non-smp kernel fixes the problem.

 # emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/l inux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode exif expat f77 fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glade gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Alan Jackson 2006-01-26 19:38:54 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120362 ***