$ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Looks like I have a chattering keyboard. Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting <ENTER>. Ditto on virtual terminal. keystrokes being duplicated in graphical apps like Thunderbird. Pace of the extra stuff seems random. Sometimes it goes 20-30 seconds; others, just a few seconds.
Don't see any journalctl ofutput of interest. Other than going out to find a new keyboard, other suggestions welcome. Thanks............
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 14:36:36 -0500 Tim Evans wrote:
Don't see any journalctl ofutput of interest. Other than going out to find a new keyboard, other suggestions welcome. Thanks............
Probably new keyboard, but I remember once having characters constantly repeating and found it was some Gnome accessibility setting that said "you've accidentally rested you hand on a key for a while, you must want me to stream thousands of those" :-). Turned off the accessibility stuff and problem went away.
On 3/5/23 14:36, Tim Evans wrote:
$ uname -a Linux osprey 6.1.15-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 3 17:29:44 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Looks like I have a chattering keyboard. Idle terminal looks like someone's repeatedly hitting <ENTER>. Ditto on virtual terminal. keystrokes being duplicated in graphical apps like Thunderbird. Pace of the extra stuff seems random. Sometimes it goes 20-30 seconds; others, just a few seconds.
Don't see any journalctl ofutput of interest. Other than going out to find a new keyboard, other suggestions welcome. Thanks............
Found an old keyboard in the basement. Swapped it in and the problem disappeared.
On Sun, 2023-03-05 at 17:21 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
Found an old keyboard in the basement. Swapped it in and the problem disappeared.
Now you can pull apart the faulty one and see if you can clear the fault, without worrying if you fail.
Membrane keyboards (the ones with two plastic sheets with conductive traces on them) can fail when grot gets between the sheets. Likewise, with a similar single-sheet construction, where there's conductive pads on each key.
I have a cheap illuminated mechnical keyboard, one of the LEDs went intermittent and the keyboard started double typing various keys. I resoldered the LED and the fault cleared. I'm guessing it was spiking and upsetting the keyboard scanner.