On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 20:03, James M0TJC wrote: > Hi All, > > Bit of a strange one this.... > > I've just gone up to 2006 (clean install from ftp server), and I am having > a keyboard related problem. > > Every now and again, it goes all daft on me, and su root will look like > ssssuu > rrrrrrrrrroooooott...... although, if I try to delete letters, then one > press of the backspace key will delete the whole lot!! > > It will do it totally at random, and no matter what program I am using at > the time, be it Konsole, Firefox, Kmail and so forth..... The only way to > stop it, is to reboot. > > I have tried 3 different keyboards, all with the same result. I have > booted into Windows (on the same drive), and nothing happens there either. > > To top it off, I'm currently logged into KDE as root (urpmi'ing some > stuff), and it is working fine.... but the moment I log in as me, it > happens again!! > > Strange! > > Any ideas?? > > Cheers, > > James
How about renaming the .kde directory for the affected user so that it gets recreated anew. If that doesn't fix it you can always bring it back. -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mail-to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stevegoodey.com http://www.bbcfactual.com Registered Linux user #372670 http://counter.li.org
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