I've had this keyboard bug on and off since I started with Ubuntu (which is about 4 days now). Machine is a P4 500MHz "spare" which I thought I'd try Linux on. Symptoms are that on pressing a key I randomly get anywhere from one to hundreds of that key's characters. I can improve the situation by disabling keyboard repeats, but this does not help when logging in. The login often skips the password entry, so I assume the "Enter" key is giving extra entries too. I have tried a different keyboard - this appeared to work correctly at first, but later gave the same problem. The problem ONLY appears on the GUI, if I ctl alt F1 to a terminal, the key entry is fine. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1, and the CD and image check out. I'm updating the system (111 updates!) to see if that works, but I'm having to use my "other" PC to write this. I'll gladly supply any other information that you may need, but I'll need instruction if it's anything other than very basic! (I've used computers for years, going back to MSDOS and before, but the UNIX stuff is all new to me ;-)
JohnP -- spurious keyboard events https://launchpad.net/bugs/63024 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
