On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 11:17:53AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/03/2015 10:48 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > For several years I have used a Logitech K800 keyboard on my > > primary desktop, currently running Fedora 22. Recently it > > has been acting up, sending a stream of fives (5's) as if > > I was holding down the five key and it was autorepeating. > > > > The 5's would appear sporadically, sometimes once a day, > > other times every couple of minutes. They appeared in > > xterm's, browsers, and other GUI apps and also when I > > switched to one of the virtual consoles not running > > X-windows. The 5's also appeared in virtual guest OS's. > > > > Assuming my keyboard was bad I purchased another kbd, > > Logitech K330. As expected, no 5's streamed from this > > new kbd. However when I installed the suspect K800 kbd > > on my other system (running CentOS 7.1), it acts normally, > > no 5's. Swap it back to Fedora 22, I get 5's. It has > > now been back to the CentOS system for 10 days and has > > not acted up once. Only on Fedora 22. > > > > Any clue as to what might cause such behavior on one > > system but not another? > > > > Several people have reported this as the "plague of fives" and seem to feel it is kernel related. I had seen it as well on my system. I first thought it was the Logitech Unifying Receiver and moved it to a different USB port. But based on the experience of others I guess it was only a coincidence that they no longer happen for me. > Thanks for the "identifier". My search turned up nothing. I considered the Unifying Receiver also but all 3 I had on hand exhibited the same behavior. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
