[arch-general] Dell latitude and keyboard problem

Guus Snijders gsnijders at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 06:17:03 EDT 2014


Op 2 sep. 2014 21:26 schreef "Sławek Kapłoński" <slawek at kaplonski.pl>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have Arch linux installed on Dell latitude e7440 laptop. Generally
almost
> everything works fine but I have one annoying problem. When I type
something on
> keyboard, sometimes (randomly) random key is "blocked" like it was
pressed all
> time (for example when I wroteeeeeeeeeeee something). This stops when I
press
> any other (or even the same) key once again. [...]

Just a wild guess, search the bios for a keyboard repeat setting.  I doubt
that it's a hardware issue, because it stops when you hit any key.

Something you didn't mention;  does this happen on the console, in an X
session and/or both?

Mvg, Guus


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