Re: "Stuck keys"
Daniel Beer <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 01:29:28PM +1200, Kathinka wrote: > Mint, Chromium, Acer. Using wireless mouse because the fidgetty > rub-a-square thing is a pain, if I want to touch a screen to make > communjcation happen I'll get a blackboard. > > Just as I was about to tell you the annoying thing that happens, this > turned up: > > > [image: Inline images 1] > > Anyway, back to the main story. Every now and then I'm writing something - > usually in a blog, something online rather than in, say, LibreOffice - and > it's like a key sticks. On and on it goes, > eitherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr like that or even > more annoying, I hit delete and instead of taking out a typo it steadily > demolishes word... sentence... paragraph. > I can't say it definitely wouldn't happen in word processing because I > don't use the program often. I get this problem too, but with Debian Wheezy (kernel 3.12.8), and the key is 'p'. It appears to be something to do with losing break codes from the keyboard controller, because if I hit 'p' again, that stops the repeat. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Beer <[email protected]> www.dlbeer.co.nz IRC: inittab (Freenode) PGP key: 2048D/160A553B _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/