Bug#512711: xserver-xorg-core: All keypresses repeated roughly three times each, makes login impossible
Hello Nathan,
Two years ago you filled the following bug on debian X server:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:32:01PM -0500, 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).
>
> An alternative that shows some improvement on my system is to switch to
> the "evdev" driver, instead of "kbd" (So this may be more applicable
> to xserver-xorg-input-kbd). However, this solution also has some
> annoying side-effects, such as keeping my Ctrl key consistently in a
> "pressed" state -- meaning that typing Alt-F4 (to exit an application)
> has the same effect as typing Ctrl-Alt-F4, and switches me to tty4
> instead of closing the window.
>
> (Note: Most of the garbage in the below xorg.conf is benign and
> essentially irrelevant [This was the file automatically generated by
> Xorg -configure]. Using the xorg.conf generated by nvidia-xconfig shows
> the same keyboard issue [Included Below].)
>
Does this problem still occur on recent version of xserver-xorg-core ?
(I guess not or more people would have complained)
Do you have an idea on the version that fixed it ?
Best Regards,
--
Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org>
http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <julien@silicone.homelinux.org>
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