unresponsive keyboard

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sun Feb 26 08:09:33 UTC 2012


Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At
> that
> time my keyboard became unresponsive. It's not a hardware problem as
> it works when I boot into Ubuntu on the same HD. The strangest thing
> is that
> sometimes I can boot into squeeze and type my login password
> successfully and sometimes the keyboard is dead so I can't log in.
> When I can boot in, the GUI works but I can't become root to try and
> trouble shoot.

I'm not a Gnome user, so I can't tell you exactly where to look, but I 
suppose that there are similar accessibility settings available like for 
KDE. Among these settings, at least KDE knows something like "slow keys" 
and "sticky keys" which seems to be your problem.


Nils




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