Re: character duplication in X

[Swift Griggs <swift.griggs%coloradovnet.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I'll tap a key and get (literally) hundreds of characters. [...] It 
> makes the system almost unusable.  Has anyone else seen anything like 
> this?

I have. I've seen it on a white MacBook 13" with a 2.0Ghz core2duo. I seem 
to remember that I didn't see the same behavior on the same system when I 
installed with i386 instead of amd64. There were too many other issues on 
the system to keep NetBSD on it, so I don't have a way to reproduce it 
anymore (back to OSX for that system). However, I can confirm I've seen 
it. I was messing with "xset r rate XXX YYY" (where XXX and YYY are 
integers). That made it slightly less unusable, but didn't fix the issue 
nearly well enough to live with it. Also, FYI, this was a year or so ago 
that I saw the behavior. I didn't check for existing PRs.

Thanks,
  Swift
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