Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
forwarded 677173 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/52611 quit Hi, Bjørn Mork wrote: > That's OK, but how do I permanently disable this mis-feature? [etc] Nothing about this looks Debian-specific, so filed upstream. Hopefully further work can happen there. (If I screwed up in filing, please feel fre

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Vincent Lefevre writes: > I've finally found the solution: > > # apt-get install xkbset > $ xkbset -a Thanks. That's useful. But I found an even better solution: apt-cache search xdm (install one of the alternatives) apt-get purge gdm3 This has the extra bonus that XAUTHORITY is back whe

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-28 01:00:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But the blog post doesn't explain *how* to do that. Well, it explains > it only for GNOME 3 users. But not everyone uses GNOME. > > "man -k accessx" gives nothing interesting. > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-15.html says

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-28 00:11:13 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > As explained in the blog post I linked to, you have to disable AccessX. But the blog post doesn't explain *how* to do that. Well, it explains it only for GNOME 3 users. But not everyone uses GNOME. "man -k accessx" gives nothing interesting.

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 00:00:32 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:39:14 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > >> A way to confirm if the slowkeys feature is currently engaged would > >> allow me to confirm this more directly next time. > >> > > http://cgi

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Julien Cristau writes: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:39:14 +0100, Wookey wrote: > >> A way to confirm if the slowkeys feature is currently engaged would >> allow me to confirm this more directly next time. >> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4af8e22b1a539778388fe509a7f3a2586

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:39:14 +0100, Wookey wrote: > A way to confirm if the slowkeys feature is currently engaged would > allow me to confirm this more directly next time. > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=4af8e22b1a539778388fe509a7f3a25860a7879c is in the X server in sid

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Vincent Lefevre [2012-07-20 08:58 +0200]: > On 2012-07-20 08:31:19 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Sounds like you have slowkeys enabled. > > http://who-t.blogspot.fr/2012/06/xkb-slowkeys.html > > So, it would seem that some part of the system would enable SlowKeys > in my back for one of the

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-26 21:31:44 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > BTW, is it only me, or do you have to hold down the key significantly > longer to turn the "feature" off than to turn it on? It certainly feels > like it. No, it seems 10 seconds in both cases. > > * When the bug occurred in my case, I don't thin

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2012-07-20 08:58:57 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> So, it would seem that some part of the system would enable SlowKeys >> in my back for one of the keyboards (I recall that when this happens >> while I'm using the USB keyboard, only the USB keyboard is affected, >>

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-20 08:58:57 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > So, it would seem that some part of the system would enable SlowKeys > in my back for one of the keyboards (I recall that when this happens > while I'm using the USB keyboard, only the USB keyboard is affected, > not the laptop keyboard). > >

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-20 08:31:19 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > Sounds like you have slowkeys enabled. > http://who-t.blogspot.fr/2012/06/xkb-slowkeys.html So, it would seem that some part of the system would enable SlowKeys in my back for one of the keyboards (I recall that when this happens while I'm usin

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-19 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:40:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-07-14 21:38:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > So, it seems that when the problem occurs, the keyboard modifiers may > > still be working with clicks (to be confirmed). > > Forget that. The problem is the following: a keyp

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-14 21:38:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > So, it seems that when the problem occurs, the keyboard modifiers may > still be working with clicks (to be confirmed). Forget that. The problem is the following: a keypress is taken into account only if the key is kept pressed for about half

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Something interesting occurred with the USB keyboard. I was using Iceweasel, and suddenly it behaved as if both the Shift and Ctrl keys were pressed: left-clicks were extending the selection, and a left-click on a link was opening it in a background tab. After hitting various keys, this no longer o

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-06-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
retitle 677173 after some time, some keyboard no longer works in the current X session thanks The same problem occurred with my laptop keyboard, suddenly, without doing anything special. This time, I hadn't had any USB keyboard attached since the last boot. However the laptop had been put into sl

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Nieder (17/06/2012): > I guess you didn't read the quoted part above my text? (If that's not > it, you have not explained yourself adequately, so please try again.) I did read it, and that's not what I'm complaining about. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-06-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Jonathan Nieder (17/06/2012): >> This is a contentless reply to let the Debian X maintainers know about >> their new bug. :) Please feel free to reassign back to the kernel if >> the cause seems to be there. > > Next time I see a contentless reassign, that's just going t

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-06-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonathan Nieder (17/06/2012): > This is a contentless reply to let the Debian X maintainers know about > their new bug. :) Please feel free to reassign back to the kernel if > the cause seems to be there. Next time I see a contentless reassign, that's just going to be -done. Now I don't see any

Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-06-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, On 2012-06-12, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I have a USB keyboard attached to my laptop, and I use it as the main > keyboard. I was using it, and suddenly it no longer worked at all (for > instance, xev didn't report any event). The device was still seen by > /lib/udev/findkeyboards and by lsusb.