On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:27 -0700, dnk wrote:
Hi there --- for some reason I am getting really weird keyboard behavior on the CLI (no xfs or anything running). Centos 4.4 yummed up.
For example if i type "root" to login, I get "rot" or sometimes "roooooot". Then other times I will have to press a key like 3 times to get a double character.
Acts the same with a different keyboard? If so, is there a possibility that multiple processes are reading the keyboard at the same time? This can cause apparent losses when a bg process with, e.g. &>somelogfile has an interaction with user. You never see prompt, but it sucks a few characters up.
Now at first I thought maybe it was the keyboard, but it seems to work fine when within gnome.
In all honesty I think i just have to get a different keyboard, but wanted to see if anyone had any experience with something like this (before I returned it) and a way to fix for the CLI. I have tried the kbdrate command.
The keyboard is a wireless belkin with a usb connection.
Is it a "windows" keyboard? I have a wireless multi-media that needed some adjustment with setkeys to get rid of aggravating messages. Check the /var/log/message and see if there is anything helpful there.
For usb "I know nutting!" (Schultzy, "Hogan's Heroes")
Thanks in advance.
d
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