William L. Maltby wrote: > 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. > That was one of my next steps to try tonight (diff keyboard). > >> 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") > Yeah it is a "windows" keyboard. I have never had an issue in the past, however this very well could be it. I will read up on setkeys when i get back to is as well. Thanks much for the pointers. MUCH appreciated. > >> Thanks in advance. >> >> d >> <snip sig stuff> >> > > HTH > -- > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- dnk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061004/5fb88559/attachment-0005.html>