Re: [MiNT] Daily builds (again)

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Lars Schmidbauer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >> The bug is still there (infinite repeat of the last pressed key or no key
> >> is accepted anymore), but something is new:
> >> If the error appears, message pid 0 (MiNT): kbd_repeat: reset kbd_lock
> >> is written on screen (or console).
>
> > This is really interesting. It should not appear as kbd_lock is only set
> > in bioskeys().
>
> > The message can only appear when bioskeys does not return (in case of
> > crash), or it is periodically called by the Eiffel-driver, which would
> > be strange.
>
> >> In case of infinite repeat, it's possible to press another key which is
> >> repeated then for a short time, then system freezes.
> >> If no key is accepted anymore, pressing any key writes the same message
> >> on screen again, mouse still works.
>
> > This one: pid 0 (MiNT): kbd_repeat: reset kbd_lock ? Or is it ikbd_scan?
>
> First time i tried it was kbd_repeat, today I reproduced it 3 times with
> infinite key repeat and message pid 0 (MiNT): ikbd_scan: reset kbd_lock.

Are you using the latest build? Are you able to run a debug-version? I've added
some extra debug-output for bioskeys(). It's prepended with a * to be
better to find. I would like to know if this message appears.

> I forgot to mention that i updated to mintlib-0.58.0-1 (sparemint rpm) a few
> days ago. Don't know if this matters...

No ..

> Testing this is really annoying because i have to reboot all the time :-(

I understand that, but someone has to be the victim ...

-Helmut