From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 25 15:10:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123DC1065670 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftp51246-2575596@sh4-5.1blu.de) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [213.83.63.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD25E8FC12 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.50) id 1QlMnv-0003tc-TS for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:10:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:10:47 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110725151047.GA8701@sh4-5.1blu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: keyboard latency from time to time X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:10:49 -0000 Hello, I run a 9-CURRENT from end of October on an Acer D250 laptop; which in general runs very fine; from time to time (say once a month) I encounter the following situation within KDE3 or X11: from a moment to another (can't say what action triggers this) the keyboard stops working; there are just no keyevents delivered on short press to any window; I've checked it with xev(1); mouse is working fine and I can close the windows or the whole session of KDE, of course loosing my connections or the content of files I'm editing in that moment; the keyevent is only delivered when you press the key for around half second, or so, and after this also the normal key re-iteration is produced; its even hard to catch only one keyevent and not twice or more; this is true for all keys, including Ctrl and Backspace, ... after restarting X11 and KDE it is fine again; What could this causing? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/