From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "F. Heitkamp" Subject: Re: keyboards and evdev printing multiple keys Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:26:57 -0500 Message-ID: <495E4051.10602@ameritech.net> References: <494FF40A.7000806@ameritech.net> <20090101034926.GA7361@dingo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from flpi195.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.20.197]:45207 "EHLO flpi195.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758547AbZABQ1I (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:27:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090101034926.GA7361@dingo> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Hutterer Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, F. Heitkamp wrote: > >> I am not sure this is a bug. >> I have a Apple keyboard connected to a IOGear USB KVM. >> I have installed evdev and the Xorg 1.5.3 server. >> When I use any X apps the keyboard repeats three for one in. i.e. >> typing one 'L' puts three of them in the input. >> I noticed when looking at /proc/bus/input/devices there are three >> instanced of the keyboard. >> > > This is an X server problem and the most likely cause is that your server is > picking up a keyboard device (driver "kbd") and the evdev device separately. > If you are using evdev 2.1, then you will get two events for each key press. > > Another reason may be that you have an evdev device configured in the > xorg.conf, and the same device gets added again through HAL. > I've tried commenting out all InputDevice sections in xorg.conf. It seems to have worked so far. No "EE"s in Xorg.0.conf and my keyboard and mouse are working. Thanks! Fred