Keyboard goes suddenly bananas

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description does not yet have enough information.

1. Is your keyboard detected correctly? If not, attach the output of lsusb > lsusb.log and look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection

2. Does this occur always or only when playing 'that' game? Are you able to reproduce this problem at will?

Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
3. Please run the command "dmesg > dmesg.log" after a fresh boot and attach the resulting file "dmesg.log" to this bug report.
4. Please run the command "sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log" and attach the resulting file "lspci-vvnn.log" to this bug report.

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Bus 008 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 045e:001e Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Explorer
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 049f:0051 Compaq Computer Corp. KU-0133 Easy Access Interner Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

$ cat /proc/version_signature
Ubuntu 2.6.24-8.14-generic

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I think the problem occurred once when I was not playing the game (it keypress UP repeatedly).
And twice while I was playing the game (it keypress LEFT repeatedly)

I don't think this is a problem with GNOME or Compiz, because I was using 'Fluxbox' as window manager.
And then I got this bug too, when I was playing the game.

I suspect it might be some bug in Xorg / Xserver?

Now, when I playing game, it stuck on the -> RIGHT arrow key.

This is very annoying!

Other people have this bug too!

Its not just the game I playing, other have the same problem in other games too!

Others have reported this in bug #194214

Hi Fred,

I have already marked this as duplicate of 194214. I think I marked it on 24th/25th, soon after you uploaded all requested information. I think I should have added a comment saying the same.

It would be good if you can collaborate with the developers on that bug. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Thanks.

Same bug, but under metacity.

10.4, 2.6.32-24-generic, GNOME 2.30.2

Pressing a modifier (ctrl or shift) key with another key is needed for the problem to appear.

Once triggered, the key repeats and cannot be stopped, bar a logout or reboot.

However, haven't found a reliable way to reproduce the problem.

Some suggest it can be triggered when launching firefox while doing some editing, particularly in the first 5 minutes of power on.

The problem is not dependent on compiz.

See also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/599316