[BRLTTY] BRLTTY with keytable enabled sometimes locks keys

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Jul 23 16:00:49 EDT 2014


[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2014/07/13 at 14:49 -0400]

>It happened to me very rarely that a braille key press is never 
>released, or more likely that the release event was lost.  This is 
>always on my laptop and not on my faster desctop PC. And only when 
>connected over USB.
>
>On that laptop I don't use keyboard keymaps because normal key presses 
>will get into auto-repeat mode occasionally even if I don't hold them 
>down. This manifests itself as some repeated characters when typing 
>which is very annoying.  I suppose this is due to the key release event 
>not forwarded back quickly enough in those cases e.g. before the 
>auto-repeat delay managed by the kernel expires.

Could you retest both of these on your slower laptop when using the latest 
development code?

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