[WBEL-users] Keyboard repeat problems with HP

[Jesse Rosenzweig]

On 8/10/06, Will Senn <will_senn at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Jesse Rosenzweig wrote:
> >
> > I installed whitebox linux ( release 4 respin 1 ) on a new HP (AMD -
> > 2GHz) machine.  I pretty much used all the defaults for the install
> > and everything works great, except when I try to type in any
> > application (a terminal is the easiest to see it in), I will
> > intermittenly get a spewing of very fast key repeates, so if I try to
> > type 'ls' for example I will get llllllllsssssssss.  I have had to
> > disable the "key presses repeat when key is help down" feature in the
> > system settings of GNOME to work around this problem.  I have tried
> > different keyboards and different keyboard connections (USB and PS/2),
> > but always the same problem.  Adjusting the delay and repeat speed
> > doesn't seem to change the erronious behavior.  Because this same
> > thing happens with VNC, I don't believe it could be a driver problem,
> > but I'm not familiar with the inner workings of the keyboard driver
> > and interface into the OS.  Does that help?  Any idea! s?
> >
> >
> Durn it! One should read the whole thread before commenting. But
> occasionally one needs to do something really, really dumb, just to feel
> human.
>
> Anyhow, does the problem occur if you boot straight into a console? or
> just in X?
>
> Later,
>
> Will
>
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I found this bug report
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651, any way to know if
that patch has been applied to the whitebox distro?