said Marvin L Jones: | On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, dep wrote: | >this is very strange on both machines that i have just upgraded< | >keyboard and mouse input arevery strange (for instance, that was | >supposed to be a comma above). it is intermittent. caps lock comes | > on for no reason and does not show on the keyboard as caps lock. | > by hitting caps lock (and lighting the caps lock light) i get | > lower case -- but not for all characters. some keys do not | > register without going back and hitting them again. occasionally | > (until i turned off repeat), the space bar would go on spacing | > forever until i hit backspace. | > | >likewise, the mouse pointer sometimes works just fine but other | > times when i click it it selects everything from where i was to | > where it is, and there's no getting it to do otherwise. | | Nothing like that here on Ubuntu 10.04 with a fully | updated/upgraded Trinity 3.5.13.2 -- using Slavek's repositories. | | No much help, I know. | Jonesy
this is really strange. following a reboot, things seem okay again, but then it starts up and goes to the point where everything is unusable. this with (k)ubuntu 12.04.
not accusing TDE -- i try to keep current on all upgrades, so some other "fix" might be to blame. just thought there might be a changed default or something that i needed to reconfigure.