On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 22:56 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Sounds like a broken keyboard to me, but you can run the program "xev" to return all the x events to see what is going on. Oh, and check the output of dmesg to see for any error messages there or do an /etc/init.d/gdm stop or try the command "chvt 1" to get to a console (probably, not tested) to get to a text console....
Adam
ahhh cheers for that, the reason i suspect that it isn't the keyboard is the autorepeat thing not working, isn't that software driven. i sort of remembered something like xev. anyway keyboard seems fine as for example i can press capslock when running xev and get....
KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x8e, subw 0x0, time 284817290, (295,466), root:(305,538), state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe5, Caps_Lock), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001, root 0x8e, subw 0x0, time 284817386, (295,466), root:(305,538), state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe5, Caps_Lock), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
and so on....
same with the other non functioning keys. so i can only think that it's some weird problem with x. i'll give x a kick in a moment and see what happens.
cheers
wayne