[solved] weird keyboard behaviour

ngsupb · 2009-12-07 16:01:55

is there an easy way to update to 1.7.3?:D

can't find it in packages

bfo · 2009-12-07 18:04:02

I think my problem is kind of similar to yours. Additional keys (Fn + F{1,2,5,6,7,8,10,11,12} ) does't work after wakeup from suspend. When pressing any of them I get the constant stream of 'h' letters printed to wherever I point with touchpad. I use ASUS K50IN. The thing happened after I'd upgraded kernel to 2.6.32 from testing. Suspend suddenly started working, but the thing with keyboard came up. Xorg-server 1.7.3 from extra.

MONVMENTVM · 2009-12-07 19:55:46

Reporting in.

Same problems for about 2 weeks. It's very nasty because it happens especially often in vim or vimperator using that goddamn 'd' key.

Edit: Just happened again. It's strange that it's almost always the 'r' or 'd' key that gets stuck for me.

Last edited by MONVMENTVM (2009-12-07 20:03:05)

trojkat · 2009-12-08 07:27:24

I've just upgrade xorg-server to 1.7.3-1 and the problem is still here :-/

majiq · 2009-12-08 08:00:50

I sadly report the same for an HP dv8000 laptop. I can fairly reliably say, though, that there is at least one or two threads out on the forums relating this behavior to whether or not the battery is plugged in. Similarly: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunt … mments=all . It's referring to something else at the end, a different kernel bug, I believe, but I can pretty definitively say that when I was using the laptop sans battery, I never ran across this issue.

Long story short, I think it's something due to ACPI/battery performance/maintenance modules.

alessandro_ufms · 2009-12-08 09:37:23

At final of Xorg.0.log on 1.7.1.902-1 appears:

(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) Dec 01 22:54:55 NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) Dec 01 22:54:57 NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
(II) Dec 01 22:54:57 NVIDIA(0): enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
(II) Asus Laptop extra buttons: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) USB2.0 1.3M UVC WebCam: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Sleep Button: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Video Bus: Device reopened after 1 attempts.
(II) Power Button: Device reopened after 1 attempts.

The code above doesn't appears on 1.7.2 and 1.7.3.

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Satchmo · 2009-12-08 10:25:09

I have this problem since maybe three months, on a Toshiba Satellite A101 laptop. I think it's worth noting that my battery is never plugged in.

ngsupb · 2009-12-08 10:46:10

got an email from xorg mail list.
No ideas what causes it. The advice is to inspect the changes between the versions:S
Someone is able to trace it?

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unrelated, shouldn't affect the keyboard driver.

Vitali - if it didn't occur in 1.7.1 but it does in 1.7.2/3, please bisect
to find the patch that caused the regression. there's only a relatively
small number of changes, so it should be easy enough to find.

Cheers,
Peter
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sea · 2009-12-08 13:34:37

Hi there, I report the same problem for Fujitsu&Siemens Pi3450. Firstly I thought that it was a kernel issue or a hardware problem, but I'm glad that it seems to be a xorg bug. I didn't notice it in 1.7.3-1 now, although it's very hard to detect. It happens rarely, but sometimes it's annoying. However, I can code without thinking about the issue because if it happens I press any key and everything returns to normal. So, usually, when I type, this bug doesn't have a chance to mess my work up.

EDIT: I report the bug in 1.7.3.

Last edited by sea (2009-12-08 21:58:52)

majiq · 2009-12-08 22:19:22

Well, I guess this is just one of those bugs that has multiple causes. I have nothing suspect in my Xorg logs, and I recall not having the problem when the battery has not been used. It's possible it's a module regression, methinks.

MONVMENTVM · 2009-12-12 19:28:03

majiq wrote:

Well, I guess this is just one of those bugs that has multiple causes. I have nothing suspect in my Xorg logs, and I recall not having the problem when the battery has not been used. It's possible it's a module regression, methinks.

I have these problems on my PC too, so I don't believe it's just a laptop related problem.

ngsupb · 2009-12-14 13:37:29

it is fixed in 1.7.3.901

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17380

nblock · 2009-12-14 18:31:59

great!

okraits · 2010-01-10 12:23:12

I still have this problem with xorg-server 1.7.3.902-1, if it is the same problem. It's really annoying, the keyboard hangs and i always have to do a hard reset I'm on arch x86_64. Does anyone still have this problem, too?

Last edited by okraits (2010-01-10 12:24:19)

lukrop · 2010-02-05 19:44:54

I got the problem that not only sometimes keys are repeated but also keystrokes are ignored

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