Bug#512711: xserver-xorg-core: All keypresses repeated roughly three times each, makes login impossible

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Nathan Davidson wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.5.3-1
> Severity: important
>
> Since upgrading to the Xorg in Experimental, any single keypress within 
> an X session results in three of the corresponding characters appearing 
> on the screen. For example, when I try to run "xev" to find out what's 
> going on, what appears on the screen is "xxxeeevvv". After the initial 
> three characters have appeared, however, auto-repeat seems to kick in as 
> normal, and some exacting use of the auto-repeat timing and the 
> backspace key can allow a marginal amount of work to get done.
>
> As expected, xev shows three separate KeyPress and KeyRelease events 
> corresponding to each physical keypress (and, of course, release).
>   

I just got the same problem when upgrading to xserver-xorg-core 1.6rc1
and fixed it by adding
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
to Section "ServerFlags".

Somehow, input-hotplug decided to add the keyboard twice (see the end of
your log), so you get your configured keyboard plus these two auto-added
ones. That's why each keypress is reported three times.

Brice, who should learn how to use input-hotplug one day or another