The following reply was made to PR port-i386/32953; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
Cc: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>, port-i386@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/32953: Repeated keystrokes under X using APCI kernel 
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:50:36 -0500

 In message <44058B19.3000108@coolfactor.org>, Gavan Fantom writes:
 >David Brownlee wrote:
 >> 
 >> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, abs@absd.org wrote:
 >> 
 >> [...]
 >>>     While using X the system will randomly repeat keystrokes, sometimes
 >>>     doubled, sometimes tripled. This happens a few times a day, but will
 >>>     reasonably frequently happen twice within the same second.
 >>>
 >>>     The system is a thinkpad T41p using xorg from pkgsrc, and a 3.0
 >>>     userland. Kernel tested was 3.0_STABLE with acpi (not MP) or 3.99.15
 >>>     MPACPI -current.
 >>>
 >>>     Problem does _not_ occur on a non ACPI kernel.
 >> 
 >> 
 >>     Just to confirm - are other people seeing this?
 >
 >Yes, I see this on a thinkpad t43p using NetBSD 3.99.8 and ACPI, and X 
 >from xsrc.
 >
 >The problem seems to be more frequent when they system is under load, 
 >such as while starting applications. I'm not sure whether CPU or I/O is 
 >the main factor here, but I suspect I/O.
 >
 >It's considerably more frequent than a couple of times a day for me.
 
 I see the same thing with -current, xorg 6.9.0, and *without* acpi.  It 
 started about when I upgraded xorg to 6.9 from 6.8.
 
 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb