Re: PROBLEM: keyboard shift not registered under fast typing or auto-repeat
From: Carl Nygard (cjnygard_at_fast.net)
Date: 08/31/03
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To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> Date: 31 Aug 2003 01:03:39 -0400
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:15, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 07:56:22PM -0400, Carl Nygard wrote:
>
> > > > Kernel doesn't register shift state when typing quickly.
> > > > Example, 'ls *' shows up as 'ls 8' when typed fast.
> >
> > Typing quickly:
> >
> > ## ^--- Shift-up event
> > (and the Shift-down event was never seen)
> >
> > typing slower,
> >
> > ## ^---- Shift-down event
> > ## ^---- Shift-up event
> >
> > Is this potentially a hardware problem
> > (i.e. should I return my laptop, because this is too d*mn annoying)?
>
> You can try to decide by running a 2.4 kernel on this laptop.
> If also 2.4 fails it may be hardware. If not, we must fix 2.6.
It was the same behavior on 2.4.20, 2.4.21, 2.6.0-test3/4, and also XP.
It's a hardware problem, I'm sending the thing in for repair.
Sorry for the false alarm, but it helped to narrow down what was
happening, so thanks for the pointers.
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