[Bug 1722298] Re: keyboard autorepeat not happening when I hold down any key

2017-10-22 Thread Jim Kolberg
I finally got the evemu program to work, same results as above. Now that I know what module, there are lot of other reports. Looks like a longterm fix is coming from upstream. Sorry for the dupe, but thanks for helping track it down and workaround. -- You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 1722298] Re: keyboard autorepeat not happening when I hold down any key

2017-10-09 Thread Jim Kolberg
I wanted to open this while my PC was still in an "upgraded" state, but I just did a clean install of 17.10 with today's daily image and the problem persists as reported. I can even reproduce it booting off the the install media and clicking the Try Ubuntu option. Any advice on narrowing it down is

[Bug 1722298] [NEW] keyboard autorepeat not happening when I hold down any key

2017-10-09 Thread Jim Kolberg
Public bug reported: The failure to auto repeat happens in all terminal apps I've tried in Artful. If I open a virtual console, it looks like a phantom is typing ^@ about once per second. This prevents successfully typing a password, and is probably what is breaking autorepeat in the GUI terminals