[CVALE] Has my mouse virus infected my keyboard?

[Pandora]

Landon Blake wrote:
> It continues to do this in any text field that I give focus. The only
> way I can fix it is to reboot the computer. Not even unplugging/plugging
> the keyboard seems to fix this.
> 
> Could this problem be related to my mouse freezing/becoming
> unresponsive?

Try unplugging your keyboard, and your mouse. You're probably using the 
wrong mouse protocol, resulting in mouse events being interpreted wrong. 
So something from the mouse gets interpreted as "last key is still down" 
and you get up to your i-balls.  The keyboard and mouse both pass 
through the same abstract subsystem called "generic input layer" so one 
can indeed affect the other in unfortunate ways.

Also, check which devices are used for the mouse in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. 
The keyboard is calculated automatically (I mean, hardcoded in xp) but 
the mouse can be /dev/input/mice or /dev/input/mouse0 or 
/dev/input/event0 or 
/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:10.1-usb-0:1:1.0-mouse or something odd 
like that.  /dev/input/mice is usually safe, but it can get confused if 
you use two mice, or a mouse and a drawing tablet for instance.