On 04/10/06, dnk <mailinglists at backbonetechnology.com> 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. > > 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. There was a similar problem reported in a past thread "Cool 'n Quiet". http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-August/thread.html#68493 Have a read through that thread, see if it helps. Will.