On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
> 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). 

[...]

How is your keyboard configured? Please post the output of these two
commands (you can run them in a non-X terminal, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1):

awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

grep -i keyboard /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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