Re: Repeated or missed keys after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

Mike Silbersack <silby_at_silby.com> wrote:

> In order to eat my own dog food, I upgraded my laptop from 6.2 to 7.0. 
> This seemed to have gone well, until I started writing a long e-mail
> while sitting on the couch today.  As I was typing the e-mail, I noticed
> that my typing skills seemed to have gone missing; there were words
> missing 2-3 letters, and other places where I was apparently holding
> down keyyyys. Heh, that's a real example of the phenomenon right there.
> 
> After a while I realized that I was not typing sloppily, but that in
> fact keys are being lost in certain cases and duplicated in others.
> Since I did not rebuild any ports or packages, I'm convinced that this
> is directly related to the 7.0 upgrade.
> 
> This behavior has shown up when running a local copy of pine (inside 
> konsole), chatting in ksirc, and in a few other programs.  (I'm running 
> KDE.)  I think it happens more when on battery than when plugged into an 
> outlet.  I'm running xbattbar, so it could be querying the battery
> status and causing problems.  This is using the laptop's built-in
> keyboard (non-USB.)
> 
> I'm going to try to track this down, although I don't know how
> successful I'll be.  I'd like to know if anyone else has seen this
> problem and if they have any additional information that might help me
> track it down faster.

I saw another report about this about a few days ago,
but don't remember the mailing list right now.

According to the report it only happens with low Mhz values,
which could also explain why you see it more often when on battery.

I don't experience the problem myself, but as I run gkrellm
with fancy plug-ins, my cpu seldom goes below 450 Mhz.

Fabian