Keyboard going crazy

[Brian Haines]

You wouldn't happen to be using a KVM switch would you? I can't get my
Ubuntu box to behave with my Belkin KVM switch. Some day I will have to
switch to USB - I hope they are better.


Brian Haines
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My first ubuntu-user post. 


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Robert E. Butts
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:53 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Keyboard going crazy

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:26 +0200, Dieter Schicker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange behavior on two of my ubuntu machines: The keyboard 
> out of a sudden gets totally crazy like when you press e.g. the "r" 
> key it writes out 1000s of "r"s and the bell rings - I mean it's funny 
> to watch, but some people in my lab do not have the same humor as I have.
> The two machines are running on completely different hardware by the 
> way that's why I think that it's not a hardware issue.


Don't overlook the obvious:  Alt-F2, gnome-control-center, and check your
settings under Keyboard, especially the typematic (repeat) rate.  

You might also try switching keyboard layouts.

I'd also try another keyboard.   


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