I have a strange keyboard problem. If I enable keyboard repeat from system settings, every key press gets repeated no matter how fast I press the key. For example if I try to type the letter ‘a’ I get ‘aaaaaaaaaaa’. Or if I type ‘mouse’ I get ‘mouseeeeeeeeeeee’. I’ve tried different delay and rate options but that doesn’t change the problem.
If I disable keyboard repeat I can type normally, but it’s very annoying when you can’t for example delete characters quickly.
I’m running opensuse 11.2 with KDE 4.3. The keyboard is wireless keyboard from Labtec. It has a receiver that is plugged to PS/2 port. The keyboard worked well with my previous distro (Kubuntu 9.04?) but it started acting up when I bought a new computer and installed opensuse to it.
I’m thinking that the problem is caused by the new motherboard or opensuse. I thought about installing a different distro to test whether this is a opensuse specific bug or not though preferably I would just figure this one out and keep my otherwise well functioning Suse installation.
It’s me again. I tried with kubuntu live cd and it has the same problem. This leads me to a conclusion that the problem lies with the motherboard or the keyboard. Or maybe with the combination of the two. My motherboard is Asus P5N73-CM with NForce 630i chipset.
Has anyone else got the same motherboard or a motherboard with the same chipset? And if so, are you using a keyboard with PS/2 connector? Next I probably have to try with a different keyboard, I just have get one first.
No solution - just affirmation that this is not a stand-alone problem. I have a keyboard with randomly repeating keys. It has done this in at least 2 distros. Keyboard is a Dell, USB connector. Gnome desktop installation. Changing repeat rates has no impact. The symptoms are not always indicative of the same issue. Researching this, I found people for whom changing the repeat rate, or otherwise playing with configs, fixed the issue. I’ve also seen forum posts from ppl like myself - for whom the repeat rate was not the issue, but rather it seems to be a real hardware or driver issue.