My very small contribution to Hug Day: I'm having the same problem on my Intel Core Duo Thinkpad R60e with Edgy Beta using both the built-in keyboard and an external USB keyboard.
None of the following solutions work: * The i8042.nomux=1 line in grub's menu.lst * modprobe psmouse rate=40 * Killing gnome-power-man * I've tried killing every module with "acpi" in it. * plptools and tleds aren't (and have never been) installed. It also occurs in xfce, but not in the full-screen text-only consoles available via the Ctrl+Alt+1 to Ctrl+Alt+6 shortcuts. I've managed to fix the problem by downloading the "linux-386" kernel from Synaptic and booting with that rather than Edgy's default "linux- generic" kernel. Keyboard responsiveness seems better all-round - no pauses, no repeated characters. So, from my perspective at least, it looks like Colonius is right (cheers, mate!) - this is in some way related to using an SMP kernel. -- Keyboard random repeat and dropped key presses https://launchpad.net/bugs/39315 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
