Subj : Help in diagnosing keyboard problem?
To   : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
From : Brendan S (Scratch User)
Date : Thu Jul 22 2004 05:02 pm

Hi

I recently installed a new motherboard/processor (gigabyte 8knxp/P4 3.0G) on my RH9 distribution and ever since I have been having an intermittant keyboard problem. I was on the standard kernel, but upgraded to 2.4.20-31.9smp. That helped a bit, but the problem still occurs.  The one custom module I use is iteraid.o, which is needed to access the ATA drives on the 8knxp.

The problem is this:
(a) once or twice a day my keyboard will do one of the following:
(b) act as if the control key is held down (each key press/mouse click becomes ctrl-key or ctrl-click)
(c) act as if keys are shifted.  For example, it will start typing in caps.  If I put caps lock on, it will type in lowercase. 
print a 4,6 or 8 when pressing an arrow key (rather than moving the cursor).
(d) repeat a key until the next keypress (eg it just printed out 20 4s (deleted) in this email after pressing the left arrow key)

My keyboard is a logitech "office internet" keyboard (OEM product) with a ps/2 connector. 

I think this is a problem with the input driver.  Any ideas about what I could try in diagnosing the cause of this/who I can talk to to find a solution would be appreciated.

TIA

Brendan

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