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[Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:36 +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:

> the switch of gdm to upstart seemed to be a possible reason for this behaviour change.  maybe it's something else though..
> anyway, the use of tcflush() in X was added by:
> 
> commit 446d9443cea31e493d05c939d0128a8116788468
> Author: Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Nov 5 11:51:06 2008 -0500
> 
>     linux: Drain the console fd of data when using evdev for keyboards
>     
>     Works around a silly bug in the kernel that causes wakeup storms after
>     too many keypresses.  Should fix the kernel bug too, but this at least
>     keeps the idle wakeup count below 1000/sec.
> 
But what is meant here by "the console" ?

Scott
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