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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 353

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Alt key not working ( except for ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+f*

Sometimes the both alt keys stop working and i can't do alt+tab, alt+shift, and other except for ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+f* ( wich is for xorg), after i restart X everything is fine again. I use up to date arch system with KDE4 svn packages and i had this problems on KDE3 too. I'm using a PC and the keyboard is in the PS/2 port. One friend of mine who runs arch+ kde3 on a laptop also has this problem.

here is output from xev

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26462131, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                  
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                
    XFilterEvent returns: False                                   

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26462947, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 23 (keysym 0xff09, Tab), same_screen YES, 
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) " "                        
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) "       "                
    XFilterEvent returns: False                                  

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26463044, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 23 (keysym 0xff09, Tab), same_screen YES, 
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) " "                        
    XFilterEvent returns: False                                  

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26463049, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                  
    XFilterEvent returns: False                                   

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26467313, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xffec, Super_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                     
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                   
    XFilterEvent returns: False                                      

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26469227, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xffec, Super_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26469944, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26471000, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 23 (keysym 0xff09, Tab), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) " "
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) "       "
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26471002, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 24 (keysym 0x71, q), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (71) "q"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (71) "q"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26471097, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 24 (keysym 0x71, q), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (71) "q"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26471135, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 23 (keysym 0xff09, Tab), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (09) " "
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001,
    root 0x188, subw 0x0, time 26471140, (91,-14), root:(96,792),
    state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 31 requests (31 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
[maki@archer ~]$

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manutd8611

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From: Oklahoma

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 7

Re: Alt key not working ( except for ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+f*

Hey, sorry I don't have any good solutions for the problem, but I just wanted to say that I have been noticing this problem occasionally also on my lenovo t61p running kde3.  It doesn't happen very often at all, and a quick X restart fixes it, but it's definitely an annoyance.  I'd love to know if someone has any solution for this.

Lastebil

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From: Suomi

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 35

Re: Alt key not working ( except for ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+f*

I occasionally have this problem when using vmware-server; my solution is to reload the keyboard map.  (You can do this without stopping X.)

In my case, I run:

setxkbmap us -variant intl

You'll want to adjust this to match the keymap you actually use.