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here's a weird behavior:
while I'm in the frontend login, each key that I strike on my keyboard refreshes my display in different resolution.
I don't understand 'cause, yesterday, it was quite fine.
The only thing that I changed was putting the Num Lock on for the next restart.
I can not even do ALT+F1 to go to console.
Even ALT+Backspace and CTRL+ALT+Backspace can't bring me back before the graphical login.
I'm on Red Hat 9.0, using a MSI GeForce 4 MX440 on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I've got plenty of hard disk space and ram.
I remember that my XFree86config file correctly installed my Viewsonic and my video card (using nv for driver).
After all, it was working fine....
Same result.
Like I said: EVERY key on my keyboard resizes my display without entering any caracter at all !
... and my keyboard is working just fine in other OSes.
Thanks for the help. I got in Kudzu, everything looks just fine. Then, on console, the keyboard behaves perfectly (well.... normally).
I logged in and typed startx.
Then.... same WEIRD behavior:
The mouse works fine but as soon as I type ANY key on my keyboard, BANG ! The display changes from 1024*768 to 640*480 and to 800*600 etc.. (KDE and Gnome)
Should I reinstalled an XFree86-kboard....rpm kind of thing ?
Or should I change my prescription ?
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Here's a cue though:
While looking at my /var/log/gdm files, I've come across this warning line under the section The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
Using last definition for duplicate fields
and this line comes after this:
expected keysym, got XF86_Prev_VMode: line 54 of XFree86
Obviously, that looks like Previous VideoMode, and that's exactly the reaction that I get when I strike any key on my keyboard.
I've checked line 54 in my XF86Config file but it's only a comment line.
Has anyone seen this before ?
And do you have ANY IDEA how I could get back my X server to work correctly ?
I am having the EXACT same problem and I would greatly appreciate if anyone knew how to fix it or if McNider could tell me. Thanks, its driving me crazy!!!
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