Gentoo Linux

  1. Bug #124406
  2. Comment #103

Comment 103 for bug 124406

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Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse) wrote : Re: Keyboard keys get stuck and repeat (Feisty, Gutsy)

Tom Jaeger wrote:
> How reliably can you reproduce the issue?

Well, we can't... :-/
The problem appears sporadically. System load seems to help in making the bug occur, but to my knowledge there is no reliable way to consistently reproduce the bug.

NOTE TO ALL:
Please check whether you have this bug described here (repeating stops by itself), or whether it is bug #194214 you are experiencing instead (*endless* key repeats that "transfer" to other open applications and can only be stopped by X server reset, can probably be reproduced by holding down a key and lots of mouse activity).
If you have bug #194214 (such as Derek and Dana Goyette), please look there for a patch that fixes the issue.
If you have this bug instead, please try to upgrade your kernel to 2.6.24-2-386 or later ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/124406/comments/58 ), which seemed to have fixed the problem for some.

If you are certain you have *this* bug, please report back after the kernel upgrade, and tell us whether it worked or not.