New laptop - weird key repeat issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:01:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:51:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>Unfortunately I don't have a clue how to solve this issue, but at
>>least we know that most likely
>>
>>- the laptop's keyboard isn't broken, but
>>- it anyway seemingly is related to the hardware and the used X
>>  environment
>>
>>For testing purpose I would add a new user and check if the issue
>>still appears for the new user.
>>
>>Assumed it should still appear for the new user, I would test another
>>WM and/or DE.  
>
>Consider to test also a live media of another Ubuntu release and/or
>from another distro.

I also would read the change log of a possible BIOS update.