[Solved] X11 keyboard behaving strangely since update
Marc Talder wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm happily running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad
>> T60 (and on all my other machines as well).
>>
>> Yesterday I did an update with the notebook in question (the last
>> update was early in January).
>>
>> Since the update the keyboard in X11 has gone weird. Every second key
>> press under X11 is recognized as if the Ctrl key was pressed, i.e.
>> every second 'm' is a newline, every second 'd' is a Ctrl-D, every
>> second 'c' a Ctrl-C, ... you get the idea.
>>
>> Keyboard on the console and when logged in via ssh from a machine with
>> another X server is behaving correctly.
>>
>> The only suspicious package in the update list I see, could be the
>> update of xkb-data from 1.4-1 to 1.5-1. But of course I can provide you
>> with the complete update list.
>>
>> I have configured the xorg.conf in the "kbd" section to use layout
>> "pc105", language "de" and option "nodeadkeys", but I already tried
>> changing those options and restarting the X11 server which however
>> didn't make any difference.
>>
>> Any help is very much appreciated.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Stefan
>>
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>> Stefan Bellon
>>
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>
> Try updating with dist-upgrade :
>
> apt-get dist upgrade
I tried this solution on an Acer Aspire 3503 manifesting the same symptoms.
No joy at all. What did work is removing the xkb-data 1.5-2. The system
will resolve dependency issues by installing xkb-data-legacy. Et voilà!
Problème résolu. Everything is back to normal. See bug #514975.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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