extra keycodes being captured

[Jason Swint]

I am having an odd problem since I upgraded from karmic to lucid. When using any of the TTY's, the characters "^@" randomly get thrown into what I am typing, including passwords. To log into a terminal, it often takes me 4-5 attempts before I can log into because these extra characters are being thrown in... I investigated this with showkey-s and got some odd results...The problem does NOT occur under X, only in TTY.. and also, it is not the keyboard, I reinstalled karmic and it works fine... upgraded to lucid again and same problem.
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OUTPUT FROM 'showkey -s'
(I pressed the '3' key 5 times. Similar results with any other key. Always 0xe0 0x79)
Using Microsoft Wireless MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A

30x04
0x84
30x04
0x84
30x04
0x84
30x04
0x84 0xe0 0x79
0x84
30x04

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

Thanks for reporting your problem.

Please take a look at [1], follow the Step-by-step Troubleshooting and comment back here your findings.

Please also add the files mentioned in "Useful Information to Collect in Reports" as separate attachments.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Jason Swint (myndian)]

On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 17:08 +0000, Leo Arias wrote:
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>

Eh, too much trouble to go through. I just switched keyboards. Thanks
though.

[Leo Arias (elopio)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!