Bug 29862

Summary:	Shift randomly hangs for tens of seconds
Product:	UIM	Reporter:	mickey86 <mikael.cordon>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	uim-bugs
Status:	CLOSED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	mikael.cordon
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description mickey86 2010-08-29 03:20:24 UTC

Since several months, when I'm typing, shift key activates itself randomly and keeps activated for 30 or 60 seconds. And I cannot deactivate it until this time and it deativates by itself. Very annoying.

This bug has been reported many times there: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97383

As we can see, this weird behaviour hits different systems (Debian, Ubuntu, ArchLinux) and different desktops environments (Gnome, KDE), but there are common points:
— X.org system, and in console mode there is no problem
— a Pinnacle PC TV card

Despite of its randomness, this problem is reproductable: type text in any software, and let the time act… shift hang (I can continue typing but like if I hold the shift-key down all the time)… wait until shift deactivate itself… continue typing.
(this shift-problem has raised 5 times during this post-writing)

Maybe related… Since few days, roughly frequently, focus on the foreground application is lost: it does not receive text input, nor shortcuts, and I must switch to another application and switch back to my application to get focus again.
(this raised about 10 times during this post-writing)

Comment 1 Etsushi Kato 2010-08-29 05:21:10 UTC

Mikael,

I think you should file this on xorg.

Comment 2 mickey86 2010-08-29 05:34:10 UTC

Right ! :)

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mikael,
> 
> I think you should file this on xorg.

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