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  1. Bug #124406
  2. Comment #289

Comment 289 for bug 124406

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The Gavitron (me-gavitron) wrote : Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat (Feisty, Gutsy)

Am seeing this on two distinct (and up-to-date) Lucid LTS installs.

Key 'release' events are getting dropped; at random, a released key will repeat until that exact key is pressed & released again, regardless of other keypresses. only happens under moderate CPU load, (like when playing minecraft or other java games.) machine A is a dual-core AMD X2 1.8Ghz, machine B is an 8-core i7 @2.6Ghz w/ 8GB ram.

can't speak for others, but mine is most certainly related to the SIGIO race: http://ajaxxx.livejournal.com/62378.html/

While the ubuntu maintainers wait for the kernel devs to push a fix, maybe there's a temp fix to be had by disabling the soft key repeats somewhere?