Sporadically erroneous keystroke repetitions

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 14 November 2009, Nix wrote:
>On 11 Nov 2009, Oliver Block spake thusly:
>> I sporadically encounter repetitions of my keystrokes. What happens is
>> the following:
>>
>> I press any key, say "a", and instead of getting just one "a" I get many.
>> Not just a few but it is like if I would keep pressing the key. Then I
>> have problems stopping this. Often it does not stop itself.  I cannot
>> tell what I have done exactly in these situations, but normally I tried
>> to press other keys to make this stopping. I guess I often used Esc.
>> Then normally it stops and afterwards everything is fine. But
>> this happens quite regularly (once every few hours) and it is very
>> annoying. This behaviour is somewhat new (since a few month). I am not
>> sure, but maybe it started after switching from a Ubuntu system to
>> Debian lenny now. The installed xorg has version 1:7.3+20.
>
>Are you using kernels 2.6.31--2.6.31.4 on an SMP system or with PREEMPT
>enabled? If so, this is a Linux kernel bug, fixed in 2.6.31.5.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that its fixed, I've not noticed it 
ssssssssstooooping doing that yet, currently at 2.6.32-rc7.
^^^^^^^^^^^example, I fixed the rest of them, but its been a PIMA for 2 years 
now, over 2 motherboards and 5 or 6 keyboards, its never really stopped.

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