Leonid wrote:

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Hi,

I know I sent this before, but this is a new version of KDE and the problem is becoming really bad. Every once in a while, keyboard repeat will suddenly be unset. I can fix it in systemsettings, only to have it get unset again randomly. Sometimes it will only take a few minutes, sometimes hours. It is very very annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it? I am running 4.2.2 (not kdemod, vanilla). << +1. It appeared to hit me immediately after either the upgrade to KDE 4.2.2 (or, more likely, I think, the upgrade to xorg-server 1.5.3-5 at 1 AM 4/6). I appear to be having the same problem, and after the same upgrade - to KDE 4.2.2 (not KDEMOD) and xorg-server in extra. Also, my mouse "third-button-wheel" will stop scrolling in a web page, for no reason. It happens so often I'm avoiding using the function - and this effect also seems to be tied to the same time frame. Note also that, in the course of modifying parts of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get to a usable desktop after this upgrade, I had to (a) remove all my "InputDevice" Sections for a keyboard and two mice (which implicitly sets several possible-gremlin options), and then (b) make a NUMBER of mods, trying to get xorg running stably with a "clean" an Xorg.log.0 as possible. I'm currently trying to figure out how to turn the clues it throws me into a usable conf, but with documentation so blatantly at odds with reality, in at least a couple of interesting places, that's hard. Try 'Option "Accel"' in the Screen Section ('man Xorg', or 'man xorg.conf'). The Xorg (or xorg.conf) man page documents it beautifully; hopefully some day it'll actually OPERATE as documented. This weekend I intend to exercise every known method of automagically generating an xorg.conf for an AMD64-based Arch Linux system, and see if I can either find what I'm missing (in one of them), or manage to get some combination of the suggestions (of all of them) to work. I realise both documentation and KNOWLEDGE are in short supply with the imminent release of xorg-server 1.6, and that it's not supposedly going to be an "easy" or "simple" "migration." I see this as mental prep work... Blue Skies...g