http://ajaxxx.livejournal.com/62378.html presents a possible explanation that
seems quite relevant, and sounds as if it could be the true source of many of
the known keyboard glitches.
It would also explain why nobody experiences the bug in the console tty, only
in X.
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[Hardy] Caps Lock
Cruncher: that might explain some issues that someone else is seeing,
but I'm confident that it's not causing what I'm seeing. In comment #3,
I summarize some of my own troubleshooting. od -x on /dev/input/event1
sees the problem as well, and od uses blocking I/O, not SIGIO. Whatever
is broken
I've seen this in Jaunty and am seeing it currently in Karmic.
** Tags added: jaunty karmic
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[Hardy] Caps Lock causes keys to repeat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213669
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My experience (with CAPS-LOCK as an additional CTRL key) is that the CTRL key
stays down.
xkbwatch confirms this. A vt control switch (CTRL+ALT + F4) and then back to X
(ALT+F7) solves my problem.
But, it's very annoying.
I too, experience this in Xemacs mostly, where I hold the CTRL (labelled
** Tags added: hardy
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[Hardy] Caps Lock causes keys to repeat
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124406 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124406
Mark, and anyone that follows:
In bug 124406, I indicated the key repeat issue was resolved. It is in
fact not resolved, but the key repeat problem is triggered now very
rarely. To repeat pun intended the
Unmarking as duplicate of Bug 124406 (now that I've figured out how to
do so in Launchpad).
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 124406
Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat (Feisty, Gutsy)
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[Hardy] Caps Lock causes keys to repeat
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213669
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 124406 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124406
Looks like Bug 213669 has been closed -- too many unrelated problems
being reported there, which I think is probably a good call. I'm going
to extract the relevant posts there and stick them here.
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