Re: psychotic keyboard after kernel upgrade!

From: Matt (mattpayton_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:00:02 GMT

Dave wrote:

>
> Ok, thanks, that's pretty much what I had come to conclude but I wanted an
> outside opinion first. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
> I've made enough rash decisions lately to hold me over for a long time.
> Well, it just did it again, it ran away on timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
> Oh this cute too, I just tried to hold down the arrow key to scroll through
> this msg to edit a typo and all of a sudden it just started printing 6's by
> itself instead of moving my cursor to the right.. That's nice..
>
> Damn. I just hoping going down on the kernel doesn't throw me back to slow
> burning again.. Man, this is annoying.. Maybe one day I'll hit the
> perfect combo and everything will work perfectly. But then I won't be able
> to stand it when everything works and I'll have to "fix" something ..
>
> Thanks again...
>
>
>

I had very similar symptoms on Slackware ( 9.1 ) when using a Logitech
wireless keyboard. Upgrading to a newer 2.6.x kernel made the problem
less frequent, but it never went away completely.

What I found :
On a fresh boot, the keyboard would behave fine for a while. Then some
unknown key combination would trigger whatever was going on. After
that, it would work fine until I bit backspace. As soon as I did,
whatever key I hit *before* hitting backspace would continue on across
the screen. For example :

This is a tset<BS> ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Hitting backspace again would stop the auto typing. But then the first
key I hit wouldn't appear. For example :

his is a test - Instead of This is a test...I would have to hit the
first key ( T in that case ) twice.

Going back to my "regular" keyboard "fixed" it.

Anyway, sorry I don't have an answer, as I never did figure out exactly
what the cause was....And belive me I spent hours + hours tweaking
different things.
So maybe try a different type of keyboard. I know they should all be at
least very similar, but who knows...maybe there's something specific to
a Compaq. 

-- 
- Matt -

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