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Maybe it is a mechanical defect of your keyboard.
Already tried another keyboard?

rhughes@oreillyauto.com wrote:
> 
> Greetings....
> 
> I have run into a problem where when in X, regardless of which window manager I use, hitting the
> right Ctrl key locks up the keyboard.  So far, as a test I have modified the xinitrc file to only
> start with xterm (no window manager).  From here I can type normally until the right Ctrl key is
> pressed.  From that point on things get VERY squerly.  Here is a typical test case:
> 
> startx
> (X starts with an xterm in the upper left corner (no window manager) )
> mouse over the xterm and type normaly
> hit the right control key
> press 'a' - if there is text on the line, the curser goes to the first character
> press 'd' - if done after hitting 'a', acts as the delete key until last character is pressed,
> then it exits X
> 
> I am running a Red Hat 7.2 system
> 
> I have also noticed that after the right control is pressed, often the mouse buttons bring up
> xterm menus... as would be expected if a control key was being held.  This leads me to believe
> that pressing the right control key is somehow 'locking' the control key.   I have looked at the
> .Xdefaults but didn't see anything out of the ordinary.  I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the
> ncurses4-5.0-4.i386 rpm (trying to refresh the terminfo db) as well as the
> XFree86-4.1.0-3.i386.rpm (trying to fix any keymap issues) but neither has helped.  It may be
> worth noting that this problem is not limited to xterm (it was just easier to test there).  No
> matter where I am in X, evein if I use something like the default KDE start script, pressing the
> right control key appears to lock the keyboard.
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appriciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ryan

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