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Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 7:32 pm

I (and many others) have a problem.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" (alpha).
xorg  1:7.3+10ubuntu6
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Mon Mar 10 15:32:00 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux

MSI P35 Neo motherboard with a HP USB keyboard.

Sometimes the keys get "stuck" and it keeps on repeating the button
all the time.
It often happen when I play games, that it repeats one of the arrow keys.

Now this is a problem that lots of people have experienced.
I've experienced it with other kernels too.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/194214

It is a very annoying bug, that happens to many users.
Restarting Xorg solves the problem.

Someone said this was a problem with dynticks, but I don't know.

Does anyone know what is causing this problem, and how to fix it?

As I don't subscribe to this list, I would like to get a reply sent to my email.
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Keys get stuck, Fred ., (Tue Mar 11, 7:32 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Mark Lord, (Thu Mar 13, 9:01 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jiri Kosina, (Wed Mar 12, 6:32 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, David Newall, (Wed Mar 12, 6:44 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Pavel Machek, (Thu Mar 13, 1:14 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Mar 14, 9:30 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Pavel Machek, (Fri Mar 14, 3:35 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jiri Kosina, (Fri Mar 14, 5:21 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Pavel Machek, (Fri Mar 14, 2:24 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Mar 14, 5:34 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Fred ., (Thu Mar 13, 1:56 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Pavel Machek, (Thu Mar 13, 2:03 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Theodore Tso, (Wed Mar 12, 10:47 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, David Newall, (Wed Mar 12, 12:47 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jiri Kosina, (Wed Mar 12, 12:49 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Hans-Peter Jansen, (Wed Mar 12, 5:22 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Mike Galbraith, (Thu Mar 13, 1:42 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jan Knutar, (Thu Mar 13, 5:48 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Mike Galbraith, (Thu Mar 13, 7:28 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Carlos R. Mafra, (Thu Mar 13, 8:02 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Helge Hafting, (Thu Mar 13, 10:18 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Pavel Machek, (Fri Mar 14, 2:34 pm)
Swap makes X unfair (was Re: Keys get stuck), Carlos R. Mafra, (Thu Mar 13, 11:13 am)
Re: Swap makes X unfair (was Re: Keys get stuck), Helge Hafting, (Fri Mar 14, 7:02 am)
Re: Swap makes X unfair (was Re: Keys get stuck), Jan Knutar, (Sun Mar 16, 11:27 am)
Re: Swap makes X unfair (was Re: Keys get stuck), Carlos R. Mafra, (Sat Mar 15, 6:11 pm)
Re: Keys get stuck, Mike Galbraith, (Thu Mar 13, 8:21 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jiri Kosina, (Thu Mar 13, 8:06 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Carlos R. Mafra, (Thu Mar 13, 8:19 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Jiri Kosina, (Thu Mar 13, 7:31 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Mike Galbraith, (Thu Mar 13, 8:02 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Mar 12, 11:20 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Sebastien Dugue, (Wed Mar 12, 4:48 am)
Re: Keys get stuck, Andrew Morton, (Tue Mar 11, 8:04 pm)
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