8.10 Keyboard issues

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 14 November 2008, Billie Walsh wrote:
> Something seems to have hosed my keyboard in 8.10. It will not accept
> normal typing speed keystrokes. If I hold the key for a couple seconds
> it will eventually accept it and put something on the screen. The mouse
> works just fine.
>
> In order to do the updates that showed up I reset the repeat rate to
> MUCH slower and and the delay longer.
>
> Anyone have any ideas [ I'm back in 8.04 till I can get some ideas and
> reboot ].
>
> --
> Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Might be related but maybe not.   In 8.10, my left arrow on the keyboard does 
nothing.  Works ok at the CLI level (out of kdm) but does not work anywhere 
within 4.1.x      Had the problem in the beta and it remains with the 
release.

KDE must have some problems in that area.