Keyboard repeates characters & wrong system clock
Philip Axer
paxer at nyware.de
Wed Dec 7 19:34:16 UTC 2005
I definitv have the right keyboard setup. The keyboard is fine, because
it worked fine for the past 2 years and I can't explain the time
dependence (I have to run the system some hours at least) I think the
time and keyboard thing are related because the repeatition of a
character itself is time dependent. So if some internal clock skrews up
(perhaps only every thousand cycles) the key thing get caused.
I will try your apic thing and hopefully everything is ok! I think (or
hope!!!) that my memory is ok. (can't imagine that a memory error
results in _one_ and every time the same error.)
Philip
>
> That sounds weird. Have you made sure you have the correct keyboard
> setting (ie. US 102-key, etc.)? Have you tried a different keyboard?
> Are there any other system problems?
>
> This is a long-shot, but have you tried booting into memtest (should
> be a grub menu entry)? I once had a bad block of RAM and things only
> started to go screwy after a certain period of usage time. I guess if
> a memory register in the upper area is bad, the system won't encounter
> it immediately until after a while of caching/reading/writing etc. The
> most noticeable problem I was getting, were open apps just suddenly
> vanishing... no error, no dialog. Just open one instant, gone the next.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Steve.
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