E521 Keyboard key problem

[James da Silva]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 17:33 -0500, Michael Hansen wrote:
> Does this happen in X only?  Text console?  Both?

> On 3/22/07, Simon Gao <gao at schrodinger.com> wrote:
>         sometimes a random key would repeat very
>         fast and many many times 
[...]
>         When this happens, I have to reboot the machine to temporarily
>         fix the
>         problem. The problem will come back in a few days.

Alternatively, could this be a version of the usb disconnect problem?
If you can unplug / replug the keyboard to fix it, then it might be.
What fixed that one for me: 1) the January BIOS update from DELL, 2)
2.6.20 kernel (I'm running Ubuntu).

Good luck.
Jaime