8.10 Keyboard issues

[Billie Walsh]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
>   
>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I should have expanded on my issue a bit more. I don't boot into 8.10
>> all the time, but when I have some time to kill I boot into it to play
>> and keep the updates installed. A few days ago it was working fine as
>> far as I've tested. Today I booted in and it froze loading the KDE
>> stuff. I shut it down [ hard shut down with the power switch ] and
>> booted into the last kernel before the most current. The keyboard
>> wouldn't work. I shut it down and rebooted into the latest kernel and
>> the same problem. After I played with it for a bit I realized that if I
>> held the key down long enough it would show up on the screen, usually
>> several of them *<]:o) . I reset the repeat functions so I could at
>> least type in my password to get the latest updates, which may be all
>> for nothing if I have to hose it and reinstall.
>>     
>
> Could you have slowkeys set?  In KDE 3.5 that under accessibility.
>
> Michael
>
>   
Not intentionally. I suppose anything is possible. I'll try and check it 
tomorrow if I get some time. Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.