My Toshiba Sat 1405 has a nasty keyboard "bounce" prroblem wwith XFree86-4.3.0 (Knoppix 3.2), as you caan see. The saame distro is fine on my desktop machines. Any Ideas? Itt is fine in cconsole mmode.

I haven't tried earlier XFree86's yet. I guess I should.

In your XF86Config file, uncomment the XKBdisable option. This will stop the keyboard from bouncing.

Good Luck

I have had that problem for quite a while. I have a toshiba laptop with a french keyboard.
If I uncomment XKBdisable, the keys stop bouncing fine, but I can't use the key 'Alt Gr' which gives access to extra character on a french keybord, like the pipe sign, the at sign...
Anyone Had a similar problem and managed to fix the bouncing while still keeping the AltGr key working? I would really like to tackle that one...

If it helps, this is my keybord section in Xf86config:

I had this issue as well with RedHat 8.0 on my Toshiba Satellite. I found that XkbDisable fix, after a lot of searching, and it works great. Since then I have upgraded to 9.0. Apparently they resolved this issue in 9.0 because I don't have to change anything in the config files.

Just a little FYI

Yea, thanks guys.

It worked great. In my case I had to add an "option "xkbdisable", and since I'm on a US keyboard, no bad side effects happened.

Try this method. It slows the bounce and return of the keys. Someone presented me this solution because he could type VERY fast and disabling Xkb extentions didn't cut it.


http://www.calpoly.edu/~rmartine/con....html#Keyboard

BTW this is my Linux site for Toshys

Thank you very much for the tip martine! I am not sorted. It is great to be able to type properly!
I hope they will sort out this problem on the next kernel...
I found a very interesting site here detailing all the possible problem regardinf setting up Linux on a Tosh laptop by the way...
http://www.thorstenhaas.de/toshiba2410/

Having said that...

Xkb works great. However, I don't understand in which file I should add the lines:
xkbset exp bo &>/dev/null
xkbset bo 1 &>/dev/null

to have them automatically exectuted when kde (my default manager) starts.
I haven't got a file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup, but mine is /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 and when I put it in that file, it doesn't execute it at start up.
As for the file .xinitrc, same thing: it doesn't seem to get executed...

So I have to execute those lines manually everytime I start my box... :-(

Any idea someone?
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This will work when starting Kde.

1) Make a script containing the commands you need.
2) Right click on the Desktop -> Create New Link to Application
3) Move $HOME/Desktop/my_script to $HOME/.kde/Autostart

This is probably the chesse ball way of doing this but it's all I can think of right now.

Good Luck

That doesn't work. I created a file with those two lines, made it executable. When kde starts instead of executing the file as a batch, it opens it in kedit on the desktop. How can I change that behaviour?
Cheers.