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Am 16.05.23 um 23:11 schrieb mh@mike.franken.de:
On Dienstag, 16. Mai 2023 23:06:08 CEST Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* mh@mike.franken.de <mh@mike.franken.de> [05-16-23 16:36]:
Hi *,
for some time now I have a problem with the keyboard on my notebook. It becomes extremely slow, i.e. only one or two keypresses are shown every 10 seconds. Special keyboard shortcuts like Alt-F4 or Ctrl-F5 are working as expected. Switching to a Linux console with Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] is still working, too. In the Linux console typing works without any problems then. Switching back to KDE again/still shows the problem. The only "solution" I found is to logout and login. For a while the keyboard then works as expected, until the same problem reoccurs. The intervals the problem shows up vary between once an evening to every 10 minutes. It happens in all programs one can type anything, i.e. OO Writer, graphical terminals or even dialog boxes of any kind. It happens with the internal notebook keyboard and also with an external USB keyboard.
Machine: Type: Convertible System: Dell product: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 v: N/A
´ openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230509
Any idea, what the reason might be and what to do against it? As it turns out, this is not (only) a keyboard problem. Trying to start systemsettings in that situation fails - when started from
On Donnerstag, 11. Mai 2023 22:54:40 CEST mh@mike.franken.de wrote: the menu, the process stops without showing a window, when started from a terminal (and waiting for the key presses to show up), the process hangs. Waiting a little longer leads to a complete freeze of the GUI. Killing/ restarting plasmashell, kwin or kded5 doesn't help. Still there are no useful messages in the journal.
Can this be caused by a memory problem? anything is possible. but you *can* test your memory. boot from a stick with memtest installed and test for yourself. unless you take your box to someone to test, you are the only one that can anser if memory is bad/flakey. Yep, will do that, when I am back home from vacation.
What makes me wonder is the fact, that I can start videos, that run without any problem in this situation.
And "top" really does not show anything strange? Anything CPU consuming? BR Pete