Repeated or missed keys after upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0

[Mike Silbersack]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 02:15:17AM -0600, Mike Silbersack 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.
>
> There were a variety of similar-sounding problems reported as part of the
> X.org 7.3 upgrade but I thought they'd been fixed.  (Rummage around in the
> -x11 and -ports lists during September for details).

Someone else just e-mailed me a link to that thread, I'll take a look and 
see if the problem seems to be the same.

> Do you see similar problems with VTYs?

I didn't notice the problem until after I started travelling for the 
holidays.  I'll experiment with sshing into the box when I return home 
later in the week.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack