ppcrulez Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 I have an irritating problem, whenever I start my computer and tries to login in KDE, when I try to enter the password for my user the keyboard repeats the first entered char by itself in an endless loop. I have to restart the X server to be able to login. Restarting the x server helps everytime and it always works after one restart of the x server. If I have a user without password the keyboard repeats the first char entered when logged in and I have to start a new session to be able to use the keyboard. If tried changing the keyboard settings and tried different keyboard layouts / keyboard from generic to the actual Logitech ITouch Internet Navigator. I've tried using the USB->PS/2 adapter and tried with USB but without any differnce. I've tried everything I can think of but without any success so far, any help would be appreciated. I'm using Mandriva 2007.1 (I had the same problem with 2007.0 though after a few months). I have an Asus AM2 motherboard with AMD Athlon X2 CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Does your keyboard show the same behaviour if you toggle terminal mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1 - F6)? Can you log in normally here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppcrulez Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 (edited) Does your keyboard show the same behaviour if you toggle terminal mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1 - F6)? Can you log in normally here? No, in terminal mode it works without any problems. Edited April 27, 2007 by ppcrulez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Please open with a texteditor the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and paste here the session beginning with Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" (or very similar) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppcrulez Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Thanks for your help! This is what I have in xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "itouchin" Option "XkbLayout" "se" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection I don't have any section with "Keyboard0" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 BTW, until we figure out what's causing this, other people experiencing it are using this as a workaround - just switch to a console and then back to X. That seems to fix it with no need to restart X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javaguy Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 the keyboard repeats the first entered char by itself in an endless loop... I once had this happen. It stopped when I moved my elbow. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 (edited) Your xorg does not show any strange option enabled for the keyboard, ban the "itouchin" option. Does the problem go away (together with some functionality, probably...) if you change that Option "XkbModel" "itouchin" to #Option "XkbModel" "itouchin" If it does, then it's either an xorg, or Mandriva compilation bug. Edited April 27, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppcrulez Posted April 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 (edited) the keyboard repeats the first entered char by itself in an endless loop... I once had this happen. It stopped when I moved my elbow. ;) I didn't think of that, such a simple solution :D Your xorg does not show any strange option enabled for the keyboard, ban the "itouchin" option.Does the problem go away (together with some functionality, probably...) if you change that Option "XkbModel" "itouchin" to #Option "XkbModel" "itouchin" If it does, then it's either an xorg, or Mandriva compilation bug. I will try that...I tried it and sadly that didn't fix the problem BTW, until we figure out what's causing this, other people experiencing it are using this as a workaround - just switch to a console and then back to X. That seems to fix it with no need to restart X. Ok, so this is a known bug then? Edited April 27, 2007 by ppcrulez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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