Comment 40 for bug 271706
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| jetdog (slicksterdave) wrote Re: Volume control wheel on laptop is sticking in ubuntu | #40 |
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@ktemkin :
I understand that position entirely, but I was under the impression that evdev events originate within the kernel itself, and that they get sent at probed intervals as long as a key is considered "down" by the hardware.
After reading more source code, it looks like it is actually event-based, in that a "down" or an "up" is sent, ONLY once, by the kernel, and that the evdev (or kbd, as i also found in one of my test cases -- which also has the problem for the r4000/zv6000), is what generates the repetition.
Yummy... answers, time to play with patches :)