I had an issue that i misunderstood where i type on my laptops internal keyboard. It has a terrible lag on terminal and lazarus and bluefish.

I read all the posts about slow keys etc etc but no solution. I bought a usb keyboard to see if its the same and its perfect. It seems to be an issue with my laptops keyboard. The touch pad has got the same issue where it is basically unusable and im having to use a usb keyboard and a usb mouse to be able to use ubuntu.

Ive got a similar track pad situation in kali linux but the internal keyboard seems to work fine. I'm assuming its a driver issue. Is there anything i can do to work around this issue?

A few questions:

Did the built-in keyboard work properly before?

Did anything change coincident with when this problem began?

Have you tried booting the a Live CD/USB of something else to check whether the problem still occurs?

No, it has done this since installing. I had kali and it was said that i shouldnt expect things to work perfectly. I added a ubuntu linux partition but it seems to be the same issue.

I booted from the live CD and used it before running thr installer from the desktop. It did it there as well.

I think Frank was asking about before you installed Kali/Ubuntu - if so it makes it more likely to be a hardware issue.

If you're in a position to try a completely different Live CD (e.g. Fedora, OpenSUSE), that may help verify whether it is indeed a driver issue, by testing whether behaviour changes when different drivers are involved.

You say the keyboard was working under Kali but the trackpad wasn't? Maybe the trackpad is a hardware issue, or maybe those Kali and Ubuntu releases (which are both based on Debian) happen to be using the same trackpad driver.


In addition, you've provided very little in the way of details...

What type of laptop is it? What specific versions of Kali and Ubuntu are involved? The output of "inxi -SMz" can provide that.

It would also help to be clearer on when/where the issue occurs - if it's only when using terminal/lazarus/bluefish it opens the possibility of a software issue (maybe they share a library that has a bug). Does it still occur if you switch to a non-GUI virtual terminal? (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-<fnum>)

it is not related to the gui or software. Opening a terminal has the same problem. I solved the trackpad issue by installing xserver/xorg/input-all which i found on youtube. The keyboard issue persists. Im going to download a new distro this weekend to see if it doesnt solve the problem. Its a pitty - I was really liking the OS despite the issue. whats boggling is that as i type this it comes and goes. One minute its fine and the next its lagging and repeating.