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xserver-xorg-input-evdev package

  1. Bug #264196
  2. Comment #43

Comment 43 for bug 264196

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In , Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

(In reply to comment #8)
> I too am having the problems described in this bug with xorg-x11-server 1.5.3
> as shipped in Fedora 10.
>
> I haven't tried that patch as yet, but I did poke the EVIOCSREP ioctl directly
> through a small Perl script. It certainly fixes the autorepeat issue for most
> keys, but it leaves the Left, Down and End keys with no autorepeat whatsoever.
>
> Why would these three keys be handled differently to all the others?

At a guess, your desktop environment is clobbering them, because the keycodes for up/down/left/right as used by evdev are the same as a few special keys (e.g. print screen) in pc105.