Re: Squeeze : Keyboard problem as if a key is always pressed

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>]

Michele <michele_ceg@yahoo.com> writes:

> Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: 
>> I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze
>> with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but
>> worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^@^@^@^@ in VCs
>> after killing X, it even prevented me from logging in on a second VC
>> for awhile, but that seemed to resolve itself somehow. xev showed
>> keycode 232 and 233 being continuously pressed and released, which on
>> my laptop is Fn+Up and Fn+Down, mapped to xf86brightnessup and
>> xf86brightnessdown. Rebooted and the problem appeared to be gone until
>> I tried to adjust brightness by using Fn+Down, which caused the
>> unending key press events to start again. xset has no effect. I'll
>> boot a LiveCD shortly to see if the problem occurs there. I have my
>> caps lock key mapped to escape, so I will try remapping back to caps
>> lock to test if this has any effect.
>
> I can confirm that setting brightness, which is Fn+Up and Fn+Down in my
> laptop as well, is the cause of the problem.  Also to me xev showed
> keycode 232 and 233.
>
> Watching recent updates, I sow acpid 1.0.10-3 -> 1.0.10-4. 
> Restarting  acpid (/etc/init.d/acpid restart)  stops the problem until
> brightness is set again.

I have the same problem, only with the xf86Display key, which on my
laptop is Fn F4. /etc/init.d/acpid restart corrects this here too.

Tyler