On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:06:17PM +0100, Jonathan Glaschke wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:46:19PM +0100, Alexandre Anriot wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > sometimes when i type a key under x, it gets repeated and repeated and
> > > so on. Sometimes i can stop this repeating by pressing the key again.
> > > But then there will be another key that gets repeated in the next
> > > seconds. If i can not stop it by pressing it again, it will be repeated
> > > till i power off my computer manually (i waited 12 houres and i still
> > > gets repeated). i can't quit X or something else
> > > because the repeated key blocks all other keys.
> > >
> > > If i manage to stop the key repeating by pressing the key again and
> > > leave x, there will be no problem until i start x again. i never saw
> > > this behaver when not using x11.
> > >
> > > i changed my xorg.conf and i already tried to delete it and then use x
> > > but the result was the same. I experienced the problem with severeal
> > > window manangers, so i don't think that the problem lies there.
> > >
> > > I dont thing it's a hardware problem because it only occurs in x11.
> > >
> > > The problem don't seems to be a known issue because i didn't found
> > > anything in openbsd's or x11's bug tracking system.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated,
> > > Jonathan
> >
> > What version of X are you running?
> >
> > I saw the same issue on Zaurus a few months ago, but it disappeared
> > immediately after rebuilding -current X.
>
> I tried -current yesterday, the problem remains.
> I also disassembled my notebook to clean the keyboard, it's perfect now
> - same problem.
>
> After I moved back to 3.8 all was perfect for houres, but that doesn't
> mean that the problem is solved, because it sometimes just doesnt appear.
>
> Then I did a kernel upgrade to -stable, rebooted my machine and had the
> problem immediately back. That doesn't proof that the -stable kernel is
> wrong, but i will work the next days with 3.8-non-stable and observe the
> situation.
FWIW, I sometimes have the same problem. Observed under
X+ratpoison+rxvt+anything, where anything is, at any time, most likely
ksh or ksh+mutt.
I run 3.8-stable/i386.
Joachim
