Ubuntu, Athlon 64, and erratic keyboard repeats

Posted by gldnspud on the 2nd of January, 2008 at 2:09 pm under Uncategorized.    This post has no comments.

Symptoms:

  • Strange, intermittent, erratic, and persistent key repeating

Setting:

Potential cause:

  • Differences between how Intel and AMD chips handle timing, exacerbated by the use of the i386 flavor of the kernel included with Ubuntu.

Solution:

  • Install the generic flavor of the kernel: * sudo aptitude install linux-generic
  • Make that kernel the default option: * Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file as root. * Counting from zero, find the generic kernel from the list at the bottom of the file. * Change the default option at the top of the file to the number of that kernel. * Save and close the file.
  • Reboot.