[TriLUG] Keyboard problems

Frye, Matthew Matthew.Frye at rexhealth.com
Mon Mar 1 14:12:41 EST 2004


I have experienced this also on my laptop, but never made the evo
connection, and it wasn't with FC, just RH9.  Initially, I threw more ram at
the problem and it seemed to work, so I forgot about it.  I still use evo,
although now I use the 1.4.x.  Maybe I just tacked it a different way.  

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> From: 	Jason Tower[SMTP:jason at cerient.net]
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> Sent: 	Monday, March 01, 2004 1:14 PM
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> Subject: 	Re: [TriLUG] Keyboard problems
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> one of my clients experienced similar keyboard goofiness on their home pc
> running mandrake 9.2.  i traced the root cause to evolution (only happend
> when evo was running, never happened if it wasn't).  even if they weren't
> *using* evolution (using openoffice or mozilla for example) it still froze
> the keyboard.  switched them to kmail and all is well.
> 
> jason
> 
> > Having a world of problems with my FC1 box.  I installed FC1 both at
> work
> > and at home.  I am having no problems with my home install, but at work
> > it's a different story.  The machine is a P3 650MHz with 192MB ram.  My
> > problem is that when I am typing every so often the screen appears to
> > freeze for a split second and then what ever character I last typed gets
> > repeated.  It is really quite annoying.  I upgraded to KDE 3.2 on both
> > machines and only this one is giving me head aches.  I tried a new
> > keyboard but with no luck, I fiddled with the control panel to see if
> > there were any settings I could adjust there but other then that I don't
> > know where to look for resolve!  I have googled for hours, but I can't
> get
> > a search phrased right to return any good results.  Anyone else
> > seen/solved a similar problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Steve
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