Re: new motherboard now Autorepeat of keys even when not pressed down
On 21:32 Sun 08 Dec , Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Dear Mitchell,
>
> Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my motherboard to an asus M4A77TD
> > motherboard with a new CPU.
> >
> > dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
>
> As a starting point, you could try to switch to one of the
> pseudoterminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and check whether it also happens
> there. If it does, try to boot from a live CD and check there – if it
> also happens there, it might well be some hardware issue. If it
> doesn’t, we know that it’s a software problem.
1. The buggy behavior continues even in spite of a change to a new keyboard. So it isnt a keyboard hardware issue.
2. As to whether it is a true motherboard hardware issue vs X windows configuration and thus potentially solved by a switch to a pseudoterminal?
I agree that working in the pseudoterminals may help sort this out, but I am in a bind here.
(While writing this letter it just happened again!!!
keyboard kept typing spaces.....
many lines worth, till i hit any key and it stopped.)
If you google you will see this is reported by many people, likely X related
it is not a n unheard of problem, and different explanations are offfered.
However I can't just shift to a pseudoterminal, because If I work in a pseudoterminal
I can edit with emacs of course,
but
I can't read pdf files and surf the web etc
and moreover with my modern ATI radeon type card, when I tried to use the the open source radeon driver
it fails to to recognize my dual monitor setup, So I must use the propriatary ati/amd video drivers
and then these ban the radeon module so I get no nice framebuffer so
when i go to a pseudoterminal
I get only a large ugly font (think Dos 3.1 days) with 20-25 lines per screen.
:)
So to satisfy your curiousity I opened emacs and typed some lines in tty2 , and
and manical repetivive letters did not happen in the pseudoterminal.
So I think it is an x configuration thing.
There are all these settings like
xset r
sticky keys
If I google
linux annoying keys repetition I come with many others complaining of a similar / identical problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467040
xserver-xorg-input-kbd: Lag problem on my keyboard - keys repetition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/599316
keyboard starts repeating the last pressed key
Thus I am looking for an idea what to try to get rid of the problem,
presuming it is an X configuration issue or perhaps as suggested a problem with
"Sticky Keys"
Thanks,
Mitchell
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