Keyboard repeats by itself when logging in

[ppcrulez]

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.

[scoonma]

Does your keyboard show the same behaviour if you toggle terminal mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1 - F6)? Can you log in normally here?

[ppcrulez]

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

[scarecrow]

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)

[ppcrulez]

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"

[adamw]

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.

[javaguy]

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. ;)

[scarecrow]

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

[ppcrulez]

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