further ideas on Re: Still bothered by annoying Re: new motherboard now Autorepeat of keys even when not pressed down

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

> 
> So far at least, I have not had the same repeated keypresses.
> 
> I wil continue to monitor.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> A look at the bios shows a spot to shut off pnp in the  bios. I will consider 
> that as well.

I was wrong and spoke too soon.

Indeed the bios command i8042.nonpnp
___helped___ to decrease the frequency of the keyboard issues
which were

1. maniacal multiple typing of space and carrige return or indeed many other keys until I hit another key.  
2. dropped keys (just didnt type a key until i retyped it)

However it did not get rid of the problem.

So what did I do.
Did a lot of reading.

I noticed that there is no longer a 
xserver-xorg-input-kbd
on my system.

Seems that evdev is the new way of capturing events from the keyboard and mouse
so I guessed perhaps that was the problem.

So I installed  xserver-xorg-input-kbd
then I 
changed the  xorg.conf
to add this stanza

          Section "InputDevice"
               Identifier   "Generic Keyboard"
               Driver       "kbd"
               Option       "CoreKeyboard"
               Option       "XkbRules"      "base"
               Option       "XkbModel"      "pc105"
               Option       "XkbLayout"     "us,il"
               Option       "XkbVariant"    ",lyx"
               Option       "XkbOptions"    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:switch,grp_led:scroll"
           EndSection

then I restarted the 

server


Now then I noticed within the Xorg.0.log
this happens

[   111.503] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[   111.503] (==) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
[   111.503] (==) No Layout section. Using the first core keyboard device.
[   111.503] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
        If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[   111.503] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[   111.503] (WW) Disabling Generic Keyboard
[   111.503] (II) Loader magic: 0x7f6c75087d00
[   111.503] (II) Module ABI versions:


So Hotplugging did not alow it to be on.
So I added the following section to the xorg.conf

   Section "ServerFlags"                                                               
            Option  "AutoAddDevices"        "off"                                       
    EndSection 

Now when i start Xorg again

[  1861.880] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[  1861.880] (==) |-->Input Device "<default pointer>"
[  1861.880] (==) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
[  1861.880] (==) No Layout section. Using the default mouse configuration.
[  1861.880] (==) No Layout section. Using the first core keyboard device.
[  1861.880] (II) Loader magic: 0x7fb38c0e6d00
[  1861.880] (II) Module ABI versions:
[  1861.880]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[  1861.880]    X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
[  1861.880]    X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
[  1861.880]    X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
[  1861.880] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)

Ok
now I am checking and so far, I have not had repeat of the problems of either 
dropped keys or 
spontaneous maniacal repeated keyboard presses

So where do I send the but report.

Clearly the autoconfiguration of ps2 keyboard
via xorg is not working
and I had to revert to the older kbd drivers...

Thanks 
Mitchell Laks