I was playing UT2003 and all the sudden I had to JAM on the keyboard keys to
make it do anything...

then I quit UT and get into gnome2 and all the sudden the same keyboard problem
is sticking around. to do anything which involves the keyboard I had to sit
there holding the button for 2-3 seconds before it inputs anything. mouse is
fine. I quit gnome, get into the console, no typing problem. figure it's X
related. fire up KDE to test, no typing problem. gnome related. fire up
IceWM, which I use for my window manager in gnome, no typing problem. reboot,
just to see what happens. still have the problem in gnome. try starting gnome
with root, no problem what so ever. So I've limited it to a problem with users
gnome properties. I removed my ~/.gnome2 dir (well, mv'ed it to somewhere else)
and the problem persisted. I can't think of anything to help. I tried messing
with gnome control panel but it just took over keyboard control.

I need help with this ASAP
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John "Spydir Web" Powers wrote:
> I was playing UT2003 and all the sudden I had to JAM on the keyboard
> keys to make it do anything...
>
> then I quit UT and get into gnome2 and all the sudden the same keyboard
> problem is sticking around. to do anything which involves the keyboard
> I had to sit there holding the button for 2-3 seconds before it inputs
> anything. mouse is fine. I quit gnome, get into the console, no typing
> problem. figure it's X related. fire up KDE to test, no typing
> problem. gnome related. fire up IceWM, which I use for my window
> manager in gnome, no typing problem. reboot, just to see what happens.
> still have the problem in gnome. try starting gnome with root, no
> problem what so ever. So I've limited it to a problem with users gnome
> properties. I removed my ~/.gnome2 dir (well, mv'ed it to somewhere
> else) and the problem persisted. I can't think of anything to help. I
> tried messing with gnome control panel but it just took over keyboard
> control.
>
> I need help with this ASAP

btw, that took me about 20 minutes to type because of it...back in KDE now
without the problem. It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen with this
computer. I'm completely stumped about what's causing it. I WOULD stick it out
in KDE but I have to say I've never been a terribly big fan of KDE and I've been
using Gnome/2 with IceWM so long anything else feels completely foreign.

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John "Spydir Web" Powers wrote:
> then I quit UT and get into gnome2 and all the sudden the same keyboard problem
> is sticking around. to do anything which involves the keyboard I had to sit
> there holding the button for 2-3 seconds before it inputs anything. mouse is
> fine. I quit gnome, get into the console, no typing problem. figure it's X
> related. fire up KDE to test, no typing problem. gnome related. fire up

you've successfully isolated the problem to gnome. perhaps a gnome forum
would be a better place to ask this.

but i must say it's a very strange problem indeed...

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