I'm the author of the bug #278078 post. Reading this current bug description & comments, I can see that both bugreports seems to be closely related.
Unfortunately, I haven't got luck with the upstream developers since I opened the bugreport in freedesktop on 2008-10-06: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17925 The "xset r rate 500 25" workaround serves as a method to ease the reproduction of the "left, down & end keys" issue. -- [intrepid] keyboard Repeat Keys is failing to adjust, when AutoAddDevices is on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs