Comment 74 for bug 278078

I experienced the same issue, and found it critically important. I would have installed a new distro to avoid this issue, as I was very unproductive with my work, it was causing me to make continual mistakes when editing my programs and web sites in Vim. I heavily rely on my repeat rate of 150 ms delay and 40 characters per second repeat, and expect the cursor to move at exactly that rate -- I don't even look where the cursor is much of the time, knowing how fast it travels and where it should be.

The solution for me was the one suggested above:

Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"

I tried this after noticing that my Xorg.3.log file showed that not only was the "kbd" driver being loaded, which is the one I specified in my xorg.conf file, but also one which I did not specify which was coming from HAL and using the "evdev" driver.

It seems the auto added "evdev" and "kbd" drivers were somehow competing for the same keyboard. All is fine once only one driver is being loaded.

Cheers.