Bug 86148 - Keyboard auto repeat occasionally turns off
Summary: Keyboard auto repeat occasionally turns off
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: control-center
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-14 21:23 UTC by Tom Cross
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-05-31 17:11:25 UTC
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Description Tom Cross 2003-03-14 21:23:24 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-10 i686)

Description of problem:
Occasionally, keyboard auto repeat will turn off completely.

Checking (RedHat)->Preferences->Keyboard the option for "Keyboard repeats when
key is held down" is CHECKED.  However running the "xset -q" command shows:

Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  off

If the user unchecks the "Keyboard repeats when key is held down" and checks it
again, most of the time keyboard repeat will be restored for a couple of hours.

They do not have to logout to make this happen.  It happens to several people
several times a day.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn on keyboard auto repeat
2.Do some data entry
3.notice keyboard auto repeat has myseriously turned off by itself
    

Actual Results:  
Once keyboard repeat is set, it should stay set.

Additional info:


All system are RedHat 8.0 systems on Dell Dimmension desktop computers.  All
systems are recently updated with all applicable erratta packages.  All systems
were installed using a fresh RedHat 8.0 "Desktop" install, not upgrades.

The systems are all different ages and so have different motherboards/video
cards/etc so it doesn't appear to be limited to only one setup.

I'm not sure if this is a GNOME configuration problem or a XFree86 problem.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-05-12 15:54:15 UTC
Hi,
I'm going through bugs assigned to me and attempting to clean some of the older,
fixed ones up.

This bug hasn't changed in over a year old now.  Are you still seeing the problem? 

(This a batch message is being sent to all my bugs that haven't changed in a year)

Comment 2 Tanya Chang 2005-05-27 18:50:38 UTC
I am seeing this right now on a Dell GX260 running RH7.3.  We have had other
reports (just a few) earlier this year as well which would have been on Dell
workstations, but I can't be sure of the O/S level.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-05-30 20:39:43 UTC
Tanya,

We no longer support Red Hat 7.3 (or 8.0).  If you upgrade to Fedora Core 3 or
Fedora Core 4 Test3, do you still see the problem?

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-05-31 17:11:25 UTC
Hi Tanya,

I'm going to close this bug.  If anyone notices the problem on one of our
supported versions of control center, feel free to file a new bug.


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