On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote: > I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running > as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago, after upgrading > a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* and the kernel) I > found that my keystrokes were not being properly registered (but only in > X -- the command line and remote SSH sessions work fine). Basically I > found that on the gdm login screen when I hit a key nothing would happen, > but the second time I hit it, the character would be rendered on my > screen. Going on a hunch I tried to login by typing every character in > both my username and password twice and it succeeded. Once logged in (to > KDE) things were worse (keystrokes were obviously being mapped to strange > things, as I couldn't even get any letters to render in a konsole > session).
[...] How is your keyboard configured? Please post the output of these two commands (you can run them in a non-X terminal, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F1): awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf grep -i keyboard /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org