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Theomachos

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-31

Posts: 67

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[Solved]New xf86-input-evdev triples keystrokes

After upgrading to xf86-input-evdev-2.1 every keystroke in xorg / gdm became tripled. Pressing "t" resulted in "ttt".
Downgrade to 2.0.7 helped.

Any other people with the same problem ?

P.S.: Commenting out    Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"  in xorg.conf solved the keyboard issue - but now the touchpad stopped working *argh*

P.P.S.: Okay...xf86-input-synaptics was not installed. All's fine now

Last edited by Theomachos (2008-12-19 14:10:40)

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jocliba

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved]New xf86-input-evdev triples keystrokes

I had the same problem but to solve it I had to put Option "AllowEmptyInput" "on" instead of "off"

quantumphaze

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 175

Re: [Solved]New xf86-input-evdev triples keystrokes

Same happened here but double input instead of triple. I have to put the Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" in or X will lock up the system.

Is there any other way to fix this? I'll try commenting out that line to see if X happens to work now for some reason.

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Maos

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Registered: 2006-11-09

Posts: 46

Re: [Solved]New xf86-input-evdev triples keystrokes

Same thing happened to me and got the tip to remove keyboard settings from xorg.conf and "Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"".
Which works well as I had already added the settings to hal (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi)

See closed bug #12371