Peter, Thanks for your response.
I gave up and re installed my system including the drivers. I did this in stages, testing the keyboard after each activity. No problems so far. Thanks again, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers --- On Sun, 6/28/09, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: strange keyboard behavior To: "George R Goffe" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:20 PM On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:34:30PM -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > This system is running CentOS 5.3, 32 bit address mode. I'm having trouble > with my laptop keyboards, both the "native" keyboard and the usb keyboard. > During boot, prior to starting x, both appear to be working correctly. > Once I start x, the keyboard is practically non functional. Input is > eventually received by holding down the keys til they become typematic. At > this point in time all I can see are the keys I've pressed (i.e., just the > "normal" results of the typematic action), not the "cmds" I have typed > though. sounds like xkb slow keys activated. try deactivating it with 'xkbset -sl' http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/xkbset/ Cheers, Peter
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