repeated key press events?

[Gordon Messmer]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I've been experiencing a somewhat annoying problem on Severn, on both
> my desktop and laptop: sometimes, when I press a letter (or number,
> arrow, whatever), without holding it, I get, instead of just one
> letter, 5-20 copies of the letter (or number, cursor movement,
> whatever :-)
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing this?  I'd like to file this in bugzilla,
> but I'd like to make sure the keyboards didn't decide to both start
> failing in this odd way at the same time.
> 


This is Red Hat bug #76959

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76959

A fix was contributed by michal maruska to the XFree86 team, and will be 
included in XFree86 4.4.0.

The patch should be available to Red Hat, should they choose to import 
it into their src.rpm.