On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:45, Timothy Musson wrote: > I've installed Ubuntu (5.04) on a cousin's oldish PC. (It's an > "AcerPower 4300" with a 466MHz Celeron, 128Mb RAM and a 10Gb hard drive. > A bit cramped, but still worthwhile :) > > Just one problem: > > Occasionally, after booting up and starting GNOME, the keyboard and > mouse buttons go haywire. Keys repeat like ccccccccccraaazzzzzzzzyyy and > mouse button clicks register erratically. As a result, the desktop is > unusable. > > What I've noticed: > > - Typing on the console (CTRL-ALT-F1) is fine. > - gdm is unaffected (no problem typing in username & password). > - About 1 in 10 boots suffer from the problem, so rebooting > usually gets rid of it. (But having to reboot is a pain!) > > What I've tried (all with no luck): > > - Logging out of GNOME, then back in. > - Stopping and restarting and gdm. > - Disabling gdm altogether and running X via startx. > - Booting with different keyboards and mice plugged in. > - Disabling keyboard repeat (this does make the keyboard usable, > but doesn't deal with the mouse buttons or get to the cause > of the problem). > - Removing the mouse-related modules from /etc/modules, temporarily. > (Other people seem to have solved odd mouse problems by changing > the order in which mouse modules get loaded.) > - Google. (Nothing I've found seems to match.) > > I'll be visiting my cousin again on Wednesday. Any suggestions on what > to try while I'm there? > > Thanks very much for ideas, I have no idea what could cause this, but I try dropping into the #ubunto irc channel on irc.freenode.net and see what they have to say on the matter. There are currently nearly 300 users in the channel, one could well have encountered the problem before.
-- CS
