Package: base
Severity: normal
I'm running debian-stable (etch) with the latest kernel
(linux-image-2.6.18-5-686).
Cpu: pentium 4 (single core, no hyper-threading (no bios option)).
Box: Dell Optiplex GX260
uname: Linux pumpkin 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 1 22:58:58 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
Symptoms:
The keyboard behaviour is usually correct, but when I press a
key with involves some cpu calculation (more than displaying
the key), then the systems behaves like if the key was not
released (at the time I release it). It is seen released
"later".
Some examples: the key is ctrl-T under firefox (I get tons of
new tabs), or / (slash) under firefox (when searching in a big
page), ctrl+ (this is horrible, I get a one huge letter after a
while on my firefox window with this), 'enter' in dselect on
the search line (in a search pressing / in the package list), ...
This does not happen in text-mode-virtual-console (with
dselect).
This happens ONLY with 2.6 (any version from 2.6.15 up to
2.6.18), I have NO problem with an old 2.4.27 (compiled
myself).
This happens with PS/2 keyboards and USB keyboards.
What I tried:
Lots of combinations of acpi=off noacpi nosmp noapic nolapic
notsc irqpoll noapictimer...
What I did not try:
Recompile a kernel with no smp and/or other PREEMPT config (the
one shipped with Debian has SMP and CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y)
For now I'm using this script where the list of number are
keycodes which match the keys for which I want to enable repeat
(backspace, del, arrows for now):
-----------
#!/bin/sh
xset r on
for i in `xmodmap -pke|awk '{print $2;}'`;do
xset r $i
done
for i in `xmodmap -pke|awk '{print $2;}' | egrep -v "98|102|104|100|22|107"`; do
xset -r $i
done
-----------
It is my office's PC so I have no much time to try everything.
But if one tells me something to try, I'll do it.
I can live with this for now, but I'd prefer find a good solution.
I do not know wherelse to put my bug report apart from
"base".
david
Some more informations:
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 1992.726
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid xtpr
bogomips : 3989.08
Currently:
/proc/cmdline:
BOOT_IMAGE=26185 ro root=302 nosmp nosmp noapic nolapic noacpi acpi=off
/proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 2921279 XT-PIC timer
1: 35459 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 60167 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, ehci_hcd:usb4
6: 3 XT-PIC floppy
7: 2 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 3926 XT-PIC Intel 82801DB-ICH4
10: 1214548 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb3, eth0
14: 73646 XT-PIC ide0
15: 64 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
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