I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago,
after upgrading a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* and the kernel) I found that my keystrokes were not being
properly registered (but only in X -- the command line and remote SSH sessions work fine). Basically I found that on the gdm
login screen when I hit a key nothing would happen, but the second time I hit it, the character would be rendered on my screen.
Going on a hunch I tried to login by typing every character in both my username and password twice and it succeeded. Once logged
in (to KDE) things were worse (keystrokes were obviously being mapped to strange things, as I couldn't even get any letters to
render in a konsole session). I'm not providing many specifics because I don't really have a clue where to look. If someone can
suggest a direction, I'd be happy to post configs, versions of packages or whatever.
The processor in this machine is an AMD-K6 500MHz
The kernel is 2.6.28-1-486 and while composing this message it occurred to me that I ought to try to boot back into my old kernel
to see if the problem exists there, but due to all my upgrading I now get a kernel panic with a message stating "kernel too old"
(the old kernel (that worked fine for many months if not years) was 2.6.17-1-486).
thanks much in advance for any guidance,
~c
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