Re: Keyboard generating events

[Svetoslav S. <sv...@gm...>]

Hi,

> On Friday 07 November 2003 00:22, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> 
> > this is something that i experience, too.
> 
> Good to hear we're not alone. ;-)
> 
> > i assumed it was my usb hardware which was slighly broken, so i
> > looked for ways to work around it. your usb setup doesnt seem to
> > be too stable either, perhaps it is the same problem? however,
> > here it is mostly the two mice and my keyboard dis- and reappearing.
> 
> Hm, ok, it could be. However, I see no evidence in any logs that it is 
> actually having problems with loosing contact... What should I look 
> for? But then, there are quite a lot of cables here; first the normal 
> cable to a 5m extension cable, which again is connected to the Tangtop, 
> which is connected to the USB port. If any of those gets displaced, 
> obviously, it can happen easily. But then, she was just typing 
> carefully when it happened. 

isn't there a limitation of the length of usb cables ?
smth between 5-10 meters ?

> BTW, it happened a second time just after I wrote my post. 
> 
> Then, it didn't pour out events, it just sat there. Also, in the first 
> case, DPMS didn't blank the screen, in the second case it did. 
> 
> > the problem with reappearing is that the xserver does not reclaim
> > its hw automatically once it was gone. It does that only on
> > special events, e.g. when you switch from the console to X.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > the Xserver in debian-experimental is able to regrab its hardware
> > with help of the input.agent from
> > http://people.debian.org/~warp/evdev/ , since it can react to
> > events received from a pipe, which the input.agent writes to.
> >
> > the drawback with the event interface configuration is that it
> > seems to have problems with mouse keypresses (the pressbutton
> > event is generated at the same time as the releasebutton event,
> > making dragging and marking things under X impossible). 
> 
> Ouch, yes, that's rather bad. 
> 
> >I still
> > want to debug this so this is fully usable. the author of the x
> > event interface can not explain this and never saw this
> > phenomenon.
> 
> If there is anything I can try, please let me know!
> 

have you tried ruby with linux-2.6.0-test9 ?
:-)

best,

svetljo

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