Michele <michele_...@yahoo.com> writes: > Il giorno dom, 29/11/2009 alle 08.27 -0800, '-' ha scritto: >> I have this problem as well, it started yesterday. Running squeeze >> with all available updates. It broke my keyboard autorepeat in X, but >> worked fine in virtual consoles. Noticed continuous ^...@^@^...@^@ in VCs >> after killing X, it even prevented me from logging in on a second VC >> for awhile, but that seemed to resolve itself somehow. xev showed >> keycode 232 and 233 being continuously pressed and released, which on >> my laptop is Fn+Up and Fn+Down, mapped to xf86brightnessup and >> xf86brightnessdown. Rebooted and the problem appeared to be gone until >> I tried to adjust brightness by using Fn+Down, which caused the >> unending key press events to start again. xset has no effect. I'll >> boot a LiveCD shortly to see if the problem occurs there. I have my >> caps lock key mapped to escape, so I will try remapping back to caps >> lock to test if this has any effect. > > I can confirm that setting brightness, which is Fn+Up and Fn+Down in my > laptop as well, is the cause of the problem. Also to me xev showed > keycode 232 and 233. > > Watching recent updates, I sow acpid 1.0.10-3 -> 1.0.10-4. > Restarting acpid (/etc/init.d/acpid restart) stops the problem until > brightness is set again.
I have the same problem, only with the xf86Display key, which on my laptop is Fn F4. /etc/init.d/acpid restart corrects this here too. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
