double duplicate keystrokes in opensuse

I have opensuse 11.2 on my laptop and it was fine until yesterday. I disconnected the USB keyboard, mouse, power, ethernet cable and the extra USB hard drive. Took the laptop to the other room, connected to a different ethernet network.

Now I am back to my table, connect every cable back. All of a sudden the USB keyboard starts duplicating every keystroke. The laptop keyboard works fine.

Then I restart the computer. Now both the laptop keyboard and the USB keyboard are duplicating every keystroke.

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I do not see the problem if I boot in the failsafe mode (one of the grub options). I do not see the problem when I boot this in Windows (this laptop has two OS in dual-boot). So it is not a hardware problem.

Something wrong with X or KDE or something else. I am not able to go to command-mode once KDE GUI starts. I can ssh into the system remotely and I don’t have the double keystroke problem. I am pretty sure I have all the online updates.

Grub/boot options: (I removed vga=361)

SUSE LINUX:
repair=1 splash=silent quiet showopts

SUSE LINUX Failsafe:
showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I can boot with OpenSUSE 11.2 but only if I have x11failsafe option in the bootline.

Keyboard is slower than usual and all desktop effects have stopped working.

First off you should replace the vga detail you removed from grub.

Do you have a xorg.conf ?
To find out, do this:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

if it errors: No such file or directory
Then that is normal because there isn’t one by default in 11.2

if you have one - we want to try this from a console login
login as user become su and do

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

reboot

first, do i understand that you disconneted those wires from a running
laptop; connected it in another room where it worked ok; disconnected
in the other room; brought it back and hooked stuff up, found problems
and THEN shut down the computer for the first time? it is there that
you wrote: “Then I restart the computer.”


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