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Re: Bug#559414: general: Strange keyboard problem



reassign 559414 linux-2.6
thanks

On Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: normal
>
> Heyho!
>
> Quite an annoying bug and no idea where to start looking...
>
> On this Atom (AOA 150; kernel, hal, udev, X mostly from sid or at least
> squeeze), I have now twice (both times after several suspend/wakeup cycles)
> had the keyboard in X suddenly lose keyboard repeat.
>
> I tried to set keyboard layout in KDE, didn't change anything.
>
> Switch to console: appears normal at first, but after I enter the login and
> am at the password prompt (or in some cases only after I entered the
> password) it seems that null bytes are entering from the keyboard ca. 3 per
> second, which is a lot slower than keyboard repeat, so it's not a stuck
> key.
>
> Symptom is a row of ^@ on the console.
>
> (and while typing this, I see that it seems to happen under X, too: since ^
> is a dead char, I need to hit the space bar real quick after hitting the
> caret key or the caret will have been canceled.)
>
> Rebooting fixes this for a few hours again.
>
> SysRq unRaw keyboard doesn't help.
>
> X has KMS enabled.
>
> Any pointers?
>
> -- vbi
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (60,
> 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


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