On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Gordon Ross wrote:
I've just installed SLED10 (plus all the updates) on a DellD820 laptop. The install went fine. After the install, however, I had a major problem with the keyboard: Uncontrolled/random repeating of keys. For example, just typing "hello" could result in "helllllllllllllooooooooooooooo" I've never seeen this on any other SuSE Linux (9.x, 10.x or SLES)
A bit of goggling pointed me to a seemingly similar bug in Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/39315 ) In that rather long page, numerous potential fixes are suggested. One that I tried was to remove the Palm sync software. I took this route (I have no Palm so could see no harm) After forcing YaST to remove the Palm software without removing the entire KDE system (b****y package managers) my laptop seems to be much better, although I'm not convinced it's 100%.
I had a quick search of the archives but I couldn't find anything similar for SuSE.
Yes, its rampant on some models of Core 2 Duo machines. In 10.1 I never completely got rid of it, but it disappeared once I got 10.2 installed. There is a big problem report in Novell's Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223561 Comment 22 gives one possible solution. However, presuming you are paying for sled, you do not have to put up with such a hack and can get tech support from Novell. If not, dump sled, get 10.2 and problem is fixed. Its really a kernel bug caused by computers that don't keep their TSCs in perfect sync between the two processors. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen