Bug#505635: [xserver-xorg-input-evdev] keyboard acts as if I had pressed every key multiple times.

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

tag 505635 upstream fixed-upstream
kthxbye

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 18:12:23 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> > Section "InputDevice"
> > 
> >     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
> >     Driver         "evdev"
> > 
> >     Option         "Device"         "/dev/input/event1"
> > #    Option         "XkbModel"       "evdev"
> > #    Option         "XkbKeycodes"    "evdev"
> > EndSection
> > 
> Removing this section from xorg.conf should fix your problem.  Or adding
> Option "GrabDevice".  Otherwise the driver gets loaded twice (once from
> xorg.conf and once from hal) for the same device, leading to the event
> duplication.
> 
This is fixed upstream now.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-evdev/commit/?id=63af314368cec47b6b8266db331f2c820e7a071f

Cheers,
Julien