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#1 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:08 PM

Hi,
I've never faced this before... just installed RH9.0, and, I find that the
keyboard response is really slow. It seems to be somthing to do with the way
keyboard events are "scanned," because, I see that some of the charaters
gets missed out if I type anything at normal speeds. I need to wait for a
second or two to see the character being echoed, and, only then should I
type in the next character - which is a kind of getting painful.

Anybody faced this problem before?

Regards,
Arvind.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:08 PM

Hi,
Just want to add that this has nothing to do with the "Keyboard Repeat Rate"
settings; they seem to be working fine.

Regards,
Arvind.

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"Arvind Devarajan" <arvind.devarajanREMOVE-THIS@in.bosch.com> wrote in
message news:e7tc26$elc$1@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com...
> Hi,
> I've never faced this before... just installed RH9.0, and, I find that the
> keyboard response is really slow. It seems to be somthing to do with the
way
> keyboard events are "scanned," because, I see that some of the charaters
> gets missed out if I type anything at normal speeds. I need to wait for a
> second or two to see the character being echoed, and, only then should I
> type in the next character - which is a kind of getting painful.
>
> Anybody faced this problem before?
>
> Regards,
> Arvind.
>
>

#3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:08 PM

Arvind Devarajan wrote:
> Hi,
> Just want to add that this has nothing to do with the "Keyboard
> Repeat Rate" settings; they seem to be working fine.
>
> Regards,
> Arvind.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "Arvind Devarajan" <arvind.devarajanREMOVE-THIS@in.bosch.com> wrote in
> message news:e7tc26$elc$1@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com...
>> Hi,
>> I've never faced this before... just installed RH9.0, and, I find
>> that the keyboard response is really slow. It seems to be somthing
>> to do with the way keyboard events are "scanned," because, I see
>> that some of the charaters gets missed out if I type anything at
>> normal speeds. I need to wait for a second or two to see the
>> character being echoed, and, only then should I type in the next
>> character - which is a kind of getting painful.
>>
>> Anybody faced this problem before?

Is the system wildly overloaded by something, such as having no RAM to speak
of and running HTTP, DNS, NFS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., etc., etc?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:08 PM

Thanks for your response.

The system is not loaded to that extent, and it has 128MB RAM. I have not
tried to test this on the console without having X running - but, do you
think this makes a big difference?

Regards,
Arvind.

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:vLudnV1aZLnaHz_ZnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Is the system wildly overloaded by something, such as having no RAM to
speak
> of and running HTTP, DNS, NFS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., etc., etc?
>
>

#5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:09 PM

"Arvind Devarajan" <arvind.devarajanREMOVE-THIS@in.bosch.com> wrote in
news:e7u1ou$220$1@ns2.fe.internet.bosch.com:

> Thanks for your response.
>
> The system is not loaded to that extent, and it has 128MB RAM. I have
> not tried to test this on the console without having X running - but,
> do you think this makes a big difference?

Definitely try that - just to eliminate some possibilities if nothing
else (bad or wrong video driver for example). Also you *do* have a
swapfile right?. What is the processor and speed of this machine? How is
the keyboard connected up? USB maybe? What harware other than internal
cdrom/hard/floppy drives, video card, sound card is connected to that
machine (including both internally and externally)?

--
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#6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:09 PM

Arvind Devarajan wrote:
> Hi,
> I've never faced this before... just installed RH9.0, and, I find that the
> keyboard response is really slow. It seems to be somthing to do with the way
> keyboard events are "scanned," because, I see that some of the charaters
> gets missed out if I type anything at normal speeds. I need to wait for a
> second or two to see the character being echoed, and, only then should I
> type in the next character - which is a kind of getting painful.

> Anybody faced this problem before?

Yes. I haven't gone back to check if I had the rat and keyboard PS/2 plugs
backward. Solved it with kbdrate. But running at boot time was not good enough
for KDE. I had to run it in terminal window.

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#7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2008, 06:09 PM

Hi,
Just want to say that this problem seemed to be solved on its own!
Yesterday, I just started my system, and no longer does my keyboard behave
as erratic as that.

I've really not investigated on what really had happened, but, at the first
thought, I think the re-boot did all the trick. Never knew that Linux also
needs a reboot for solving problems ;-)

Thanks for all your suggestions though; they've atleast enlightened me on
what I should check before I send out an SOS.

Regards,
Arvind.

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"Matt Giwer" <jull43@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote in message
news:IXFog.38400$7G2.27550@tornado.tampabay.rr.com ...
> Arvind Devarajan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've never faced this before... just installed RH9.0, and, I find that
the
> > keyboard response is really slow. It seems to be somthing to do with the
way
> > keyboard events are "scanned," because, I see that some of the charaters
> > gets missed out if I type anything at normal speeds. I need to wait for
a
> > second or two to see the character being echoed, and, only then should I
> > type in the next character - which is a kind of getting painful.
>
> > Anybody faced this problem before?
>

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