On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > 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
I think I found a solution. I use startx everytime, but sometimes in this way: "startx & exit". When I do this, my keyboard shows this strange behavior. Everytime I do it not, everything works just perfect. I testet it serveral times. If anybody can explain this, i would be happy. Jonathan -- | /"\ ASCII Ribbon | Jonathan Glaschke - Lorenz-Goertz-Stra_e 71, | \ / Campaign Against | 41238 Moenchengladbach, Germany; | X HTML In Mail | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / \ And News | http://jonathan-glaschke.de/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
