Disable auto repeat for non standard keys?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Jun 30 06:27:53 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:56:00PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett sent me a patch to test, which disables autorepeat for
> > keycodes > 146 and sends the down and up event.
> > It works fine on my laptop (my volume keys are now working fine).
> > 
> > Patch is attached, any comments/other suggestions?
> I don't think the maintainer (not me!) will accept that patch. It's for 
> your keyboard (keycde 146 is rather arbitrary I presume) and one can't 
> even switch it off.

No, 146 is the cutoff for standard keys. I'm looking (handwavily) at 
some kind of god-awful kernel solution for this.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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