Subject: Re: key debounce changed (under load) recently?
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 06/16/2006 13:53:32
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:28:11 +1000, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
wrote:
>
> current as of yesterday, on an IBM X31. I'm getting a LOT of
> double-press effects with ctrl->arrow and <tab> and with other keys.
>
> anyone else seeing this?
>
Is this xorg or XFree86?
I'd wonder about the timecounter stuff, though -- with an earlier version
of it, key repeat was sensitive to system load and hence clock frequency,
due to estd.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb