[ltp] strange keyboard behaviour after power savings

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Arno Trautmann wrote:
> yesterday I tried to enable some of the power saving options mentioned =
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> on thinkwiki:
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> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption
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> I only enabled things from which I thought I knew what they do. But now =
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> if I start, my keyboard does strange things: on login, I type a-r-n-o, =
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> but get only =84arn=93. Now I can press any other key, say f, and I get t=
he =20
> missing =84o=93. The next key may be b, but I get the =84f=93, and so on.=
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> Sometimes I just have to wait about 1sec for the korrekt letter to=20
> appear=85

This might be some sort of an accidentally-enabled accessibility
feature.  I would suggest checking gnome-keyboard-preferences.

> Ok, I could work with this, if I always think two steps ahead and one =20
> back=97but I=92m not that smart ;)
> Could anyone give me a hint, what could have caused this? Or give me a =
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> keyword to google? I don=92t know exactly what to search for=85
> I run Arch Linux, gdm, on a X61s.

Marius Gedminas
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