Ctrl/Shift don't autorepeat

[Nikolay Sivov]

Paul Chitescu wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2009 11:27:24 am Nikolay Sivov wrote:
>   
>> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>>     
>>> "Nikolay Sivov" <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I've noticed some problems with keyboard input while testing my 
>>>> favorite Listview control code.
>>>> The problem is that Ctrl/Shift don't fire WM_KEYDOWNs properly: they 
>>>> don't trigger autorepeat.
>>>>
>>>> Is it a known input processing problem?
>>>>         
>>> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18296 ?
>>>       
>> Actually, no. I don't have unneeded keyups, the problem is that function 
>> keys don't autorepeat while letter keys
>> do it properly.
>>     
>
> Are you using an USB keyboard? Can you experiment on a computer with PS/2 
> keyboard?
>
> I ask because USB HID doesn't provide autorepeat, that is emulated in kernel. 
> Besides, modifier keys (there can be maximum 8 of them) are treated 
> differently by HID keyboard spec.
>   
I'm using PS/2 through vmware running Lenny.