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Keyboard strange behavior

Hey there guys.

i write to you because something strange happened to my keyboard. The thing is that i can no longer press and hold a key so that i can get as many characters as i want until i drop the key. For instance, if i mistype something, i cannot press and hold backspace until i erase everything i typed wrong; or, i cannot press any of the arrow keys so that i can move around freely until i get to where i want to be.

I have my thoughts about it and i can only guess that something changed it the xorg.conf file, i don't know where else i should be looking for the problem.

If you can throw a little light or the fix for that matter, i would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance for the aid.

Probably something like

Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"

in Keyboard section should give reasonable behavior.

I just added that part to the keyboard section and nothing happened. I restarted X of course to make sure the changes took effect. But nothing happened.

I don't remember exactly how my initial xorg.conf file looked specifically for the keyboard sections, since it has always worked with the default settings. I just usually have to tweak the part for mouse, touchpad and video card part.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

What does 'xset q' say about repeat? Are you sure your xorg.conf has only one keyboard section?

Output of xset q

Here's the output of the command you provided over there. Hope it helps you out.

Code:

Keyboard Control:

  auto repeat:  off    key click percent:  42    LED mask:  00000000

  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  30

  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf

                        fa9fffffffdffdff

                        ffffffffffffffff

                        ffffffffffffffff

  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100

Pointer Control:

  acceleration:  51/10    threshold:  20

Screen Saver:

  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  no

  timeout:  0    cycle:  600

Colors:

  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215

Font Path:

  /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,/home/punisher/.fonts

Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled

DPMS (Energy Star):

  Standby: 1200    Suspend: 1800    Off: 2400

  DPMS is Enabled

  Monitor is On

File paths:

  Config file:  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules

  Log file:    /var/log/Xorg.0.log

The part for 'auto repeat: off' maybe wrong, i am guessing here.

So, 'xset r on' switches autorepeat on? Maybe some program (window manager?) executes its own analog of 'xset r off'.. Is the problem the same in IceWM?

I tried that xset r on and it got fixed, i hope that it stays this way after a reboot.

Thanks too much for the help, i'll shout out if something else comes up.

Such things usually do not stay OK after reboot... So the question about IceWM is not discarded.

Hey, thanks for the help. I just downloaded kubuntu 7.04 and installed it, so i guess i will be ok for a while.

Either way, i learned a lot, LQ rules.

Thanks man.