Hi, I want to get some feedback here concerning an issue I have with my keyboard in squeeze (64bit)
I have a cheapo logitech usb keyboard (standard US layout). The keyboard preferences panel lists two layouts, 1 US, 2 UK (as I entered UK English language as an option during install). The first issue (which I can workaround), is that the UK keyboard layout seems to be the default (even though it's listed second in the preferences panel). When I remove the UK layout, my keyboard works fine *for that session*, but upon reboot the UK layout is back and causes conflicts. The second issue I suspect is not related to my keyboard but to something else entirely. (warning I mention ubuntu here so feel free to flame away...) After using the computer for an indeterminate amount of time, one of the keys will 'stick' - this can either mean wrecking a file I'm editing in VIM (delete being stuck is kind of destructive) or continuous scrolling. A reboot 'fixes' this problem - but as the keyboard is 'stuck' and won't accept input I have to cut the power :( This same problem appeared when I upgraded my pc from an old nvidia card to two ati cards and when I moved from 32bit to 64bit (in this case I upgraded from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.4). After much digging through bug reports on the ubuntu launchpad, it seems that this may be a bug in X where a thread/process isn't releasing a lock (or something - I don't have the references right now). People have reported success at squashing it with various workarounds - none of which worked for me. So I decided to switch entirely to debian and haven't regretted it, except that the keyboard 'locking' bug appears here as well. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem with i7 processor, ati cards (although I haven't installed fancy 3d compositing drivers) on 64bit sqeeze (or ubuntu 10.x)? If I knew where the problem lies I would file a bug report, but I don't know how to phrase this in a useful manner. Thanks, Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikh8b+eszt99fr4f2fy=dbdzta04olndh8x3...@mail.gmail.com
