Bug 13223

Summary: xserver-1.4 keyboard repeat rate strange behavior
Product: xorg Reporter: Ademar Reis <ademar>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Ademar Reis 2007-11-13 08:52:57 UTC 
As reported on the xorg-mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-November/030077.html

There's something wrong with the keyboard repeat rate, but I'm
not sure I understand it yet. Tests done using xserver-1.4 as on git branch origin/server-1.4-branch (last commit is 007e2239cf655...). Some symptoms:

5a: one of my keyboards now has a very high repeat rate by
default. Besides, if I change it to, for example, xset r rate 250
1, and keep a key pressed, I get one initial keypress event and
then after 250ms I start getting two keypress events at every
second (together).

5b: on another keyboard, I get what I call "keyboard repeat
(de)acceleration": if I set the repeat rate to 200/sec, for
example, I get this rate on the first initial events but
then the rate gets back to "normal" after a few milisecs. The
same with a rate of 1/sec or whatever value.

BTW, during my tests with a high repeat rate, sometimes events
are sent to a different window where the mouse is located. Maybe
the two problems are correlated. (Bug #13114)
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2007-11-13 14:48:21 UTC 
Can you please try again with the patch I put forward for #13114. this should fix 5a, not sure about 5b though.
Comment 2 Ademar Reis 2007-11-14 07:47:25 UTC 
Both problems are gone after applying the patch from bug #13114. Thanks!
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2007-11-15 22:15:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13114 ***

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