----- Original message from Christoph P. Kukulies on Wed Sep 27 12:42:01 2006 -----
> 
> We are observing a strange effect here under X11 with a 2.4.21-47.EL kernel.
> The keyboard repeats single keystrokes in a very unpleasant manner. 
> I first thought that it was an issue that can be passed by by setting 
> xset -r and then xset -r rate 400 30 but after short it turned out that
> the problem did not go away with that. Motherboard is an ASUS A8N-E.
> 
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 43
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
> stepping        : 1
> cpu MHz         : 2010.338
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext lm
> 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips        : 4010.80
> 
> Anyone having an idea what to do? I also tried a redhat-config-keyboard
> to no avail. Other colleages were reporting the same problem. Also 
> a BIOS issue could reportedly be the cause. (Typematic feature comes to
> mind - don't know at the moment whether this MB has this feature in its
> BIOS. Will try that probably next).
> 

       Hello,

       I  don't know if it is related but two days ago I had my  keybord
       frozen  as  if the "down" key was repeating.  I could just  login
       with  ssh  from an other machine to go "chvt 1" but even in  this
       mode I still had no keyboard.

       I  could log out (the mouse was working) but I had to reboot as I
       had no keybord in the login screen.

       /var/log/messages shows :

Sep 25 23:47:05 rabeson kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xe0 on isa0060/serio0).
Sep 25 23:47:05 rabeson kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e060 <keycode>' to make it known.
Sep 25 23:47:05 rabeson hal.hotplug[21857]: DEVPATH is not set


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