I have an Opteron machine running 9.3 with a weird keyboard behavior. It's a Tyan 2895 K8WE (the dual PCI-express one) with 2x Opteron 250 on it, and 4GB of RAM. As soon as I start X (KDE), the keyboard starts behaving erratic: if I press one key, I get a several times the same character. Very annoying. It behaves fine in the console mode (without X). I played around with BIOS settings (key repeat and delay), and the X11 settings. Still the same. It does it both with a PS2 and a USB keyboard. Anybody have seen anything like this ? ...Luc... Luc Renambot luc@evl.uic.edu Electronic Visualization Lab (M/ C 152) EVL Phone (312) 996-3002 University of Illinois at Chicago EVL FAX (312) 413-7585 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc Chicago, IL 60607-7053
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:22 -0500, Luc Renambot wrote:
I have an Opteron machine running 9.3 with a weird keyboard behavior. It's a Tyan 2895 K8WE (the dual PCI-express one) with 2x Opteron 250 on it, and 4GB of RAM. As soon as I start X (KDE), the keyboard starts behaving erratic: if I press one key, I get a several times the same character. Very annoying. It behaves fine in the console mode (without X). I played around with BIOS settings (key repeat and delay), and the X11 settings. Still the same. It does it both with a PS2 and a USB keyboard. Anybody have seen anything like this ?
I have seen this occasionally with my dual opteron Iwill ZMaxDp, a dual PIII box and a new quad opteron Tyan box. I had put it down to the cordless keyboard/mouse I use and an occasionally radio noisy environment. Matthew -- Matthew Wild Tel.: +44 (0)1235 445173 M.Wild@rl.ac.uk URL http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ UK Solar System Data Centre and World Data Centre - Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX
Matthew Wild wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:22 -0500, Luc Renambot wrote:
I have an Opteron machine running 9.3 with a weird keyboard behavior. It's a Tyan 2895 K8WE (the dual PCI-express one) with 2x Opteron 250 on it, and 4GB of RAM. As soon as I start X (KDE), the keyboard starts behaving erratic: if I press one key, I get a several times the same character. Very annoying. It behaves fine in the console mode (without X). I played around with BIOS settings (key repeat and delay), and the X11 settings. Still the same. It does it both with a PS2 and a USB keyboard. Anybody have seen anything like this ?
I have seen this occasionally with my dual opteron Iwill ZMaxDp, a dual PIII box and a new quad opteron Tyan box. I had put it down to the cordless keyboard/mouse I use and an occasionally radio noisy environment.
Matthew
I see this too often with dual opteron Sun W2100. I had blamed it on the cordless keyboard/mouse as well. It sure can be annoying. It happens a lot with the default 9.3 kernel. It happens less with a clean 2.6.11.6 kernel. eric
It must be the OS, since it happens with a wireless USB keyboard and with a wired PS/2 keyboard. I have the same machine next to it running Windows, and it's fine. ...Luc... Luc Renambot luc@evl.uic.edu Electronic Visualization Lab (M/ C 152) EVL Phone (312) 996-3002 University of Illinois at Chicago EVL FAX (312) 413-7585 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc Chicago, IL 60607-7053 On May 25, 2005, at 4:33 AM, Matthew Wild wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:22 -0500, Luc Renambot wrote:
I have an Opteron machine running 9.3 with a weird keyboard behavior. It's a Tyan 2895 K8WE (the dual PCI-express one) with 2x Opteron 250 on it, and 4GB of RAM. As soon as I start X (KDE), the keyboard starts behaving erratic: if I press one key, I get a several times the same character. Very annoying. It behaves fine in the console mode (without X). I played around with BIOS settings (key repeat and delay), and the X11 settings. Still the same. It does it both with a PS2 and a USB keyboard. Anybody have seen anything like this ?
I have seen this occasionally with my dual opteron Iwill ZMaxDp, a dual PIII box and a new quad opteron Tyan box. I had put it down to the cordless keyboard/mouse I use and an occasionally radio noisy environment.
Matthew -- Matthew Wild Tel.: +44 (0)1235 445173 M.Wild@rl.ac.uk URL http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ UK Solar System Data Centre and World Data Centre - Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX
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It looks like a simple 'xset r rate' reset the settings to a usable state ! ...Luc... Luc Renambot luc@evl.uic.edu Electronic Visualization Lab (M/ C 152) EVL Phone (312) 996-3002 University of Illinois at Chicago EVL FAX (312) 413-7585 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc Chicago, IL 60607-7053 On May 25, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Luc Renambot wrote:
It must be the OS, since it happens with a wireless USB keyboard and with a wired PS/2 keyboard. I have the same machine next to it running Windows, and it's fine.
...Luc...
Luc Renambot luc@evl.uic.edu Electronic Visualization Lab (M/C 152) EVL Phone (312) 996-3002 University of Illinois at Chicago EVL FAX (312) 413-7585 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO http://www.evl.uic.edu/luc Chicago, IL 60607-7053
On May 25, 2005, at 4:33 AM, Matthew Wild wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:22 -0500, Luc Renambot wrote:
I have an Opteron machine running 9.3 with a weird keyboard behavior. It's a Tyan 2895 K8WE (the dual PCI-express one) with 2x Opteron 250 on it, and 4GB of RAM. As soon as I start X (KDE), the keyboard starts behaving erratic: if I press one key, I get a several times the same character. Very annoying. It behaves fine in the console mode (without X). I played around with BIOS settings (key repeat and delay), and the X11 settings. Still the same. It does it both with a PS2 and a USB keyboard. Anybody have seen anything like this ?
I have seen this occasionally with my dual opteron Iwill ZMaxDp, a dual PIII box and a new quad opteron Tyan box. I had put it down to the cordless keyboard/mouse I use and an occasionally radio noisy environment.
Matthew -- Matthew Wild Tel.: +44 (0)1235 445173 M.Wild@rl.ac.uk URL http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ UK Solar System Data Centre and World Data Centre - Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Chilton Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX
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