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skazhy

Member

From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2009-07-01

Posts: 46

annoying keyboard glitch

Hi!

I have this annoying bug: sometimes wen i press a key in a text editor (eg 'j') the letter continues to appear on the screen, (like 'jjjjjjjjj'). Also, this glitch crashed firefox once, when I pressed crtl+t to open new tab, firefox kept opening new tabs until it crashed.

Is this a keyboard glitch or archlinux bug? Has anyone encountered such problem too?

-skazhy

Last edited by skazhy (2009-12-06 12:16:10)

cahr_g

Member

Registered: 2009-09-24

Posts: 35

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

same problem for me, appeared after update from xorg 1.6 to xorg 1.7

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,400

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Re: annoying keyboard glitch

I was suggested this patch by JGC:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserve … 39665fa22f

Too soon to tell if it works...

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

Have noted twice recently that the usb keybd stopped responding while posting an e-mail in thunderbird.  Holding down any key produced multiple characters...using CAPS produced capital multiple characters.  Single short key strokes did not produce a character.

The USB mouse continues to respond on the same USB channel.

Reboot provides no relief but keybd allows entry of password.  The keybd does not respond when trying to e-mail following the selection of thunderbird.  That is to say, the condition was not corrected by a reboot.

Solution to this difficulty was to remove the keybd USB connection and re-insert.

My system is 64 bit and intel945 with Pent4 cpu dual core.

Hoping this posting helps to narrow down the cause.......

Last edited by lilsirecho (2009-12-06 17:08:39)

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ngsupb

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Registered: 2009-07-29

Posts: 57

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Re: annoying keyboard glitch

Other threads:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17380
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 91#p668091

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

I posted about this but the thread was about something else:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 68#p652568 (two posts)

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

Again the keybd failed ...this time trying to enter selection in google window.  This is just a few minutes ago.

Corrected by disconnecting usb keybd and reconnecting.

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

Problem resurfaced when addressing the terminal today.

Restored by USB re-insertion again.....

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: annoying keyboard glitch

Same problem again today with terminal keybd fail.

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Dirk Sohler

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

Re: annoying keyboard glitch

I have that too! I never thought this is a "real" bug but a bug regarding to my USB-to-PS/2 adapter

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