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#1 2017-11-01 11:57:00

johannesl
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Registered: 2017-02-28
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laptop spamming non printable keys

Hi,

after a recent update arch began behaving strangely, if i pressed a key for a while it would stop after about a second.
Inspection showed that ca. every second the following key press is registered by arch "^@". This problem only exists when using libinput as input driver,
it exists when using x as well as in command line mode. It does not exist in the grub command line as well as in other linux distributions, so it cannot be a hardware issue. please let me know if you have any recommendations because arch is unusable like this.

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#2 2017-11-01 12:00:13

Trilby
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Re: laptop spamming non printable keys

This issue pops up periodically.  There has been no sure solution from what I've seen, but some steps that help.  Please check the following related threads to see if they can help:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230330
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207359
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207880

Note though that previous incidences have *not* been in X, only in tty - so this may be different.

Last edited by Trilby (2017-11-01 12:01:12)


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#3 2017-11-01 12:03:48

Slithery
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Registered: 2013-12-01
Posts: 5,776

Re: laptop spamming non printable keys

Welcome to the forums johannesl smile

Usually I'd tell you to search the forums, as there have been several posts about this issue. Unfortunately our forum search engine doesn't recognise ^@ as a search term, making the relevant threads somewhat tricky to find so I'll let you off smile

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207359
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207880
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=230330

Last edited by Slithery (2017-11-01 12:04:46)


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