Ubuntu and keyboard key repeat issue

For a while now, I've tolerated the issue of playing Wine games and having problems with the keyboard key repeats. This involved getting killed in Mass Effect and crashing cars in Colin McRae 2005. So, I thought I should dig up on this issue and see just what the hell is happening.

As it turns out, this is caused by a known Xorg bug in Ubuntu 9.04 (lucky me). This discussion thread provides all the details that you need to know on the issue. What I did to alleviate the issues on my end is:

System > preferences > keyboard > key repeat

Mass Effect 3 Demo and Wine - Does not work

I did a few tricks with Origin and played around with the install. Wine can run Mass Effect 3, but unfortunately, Mass Effect 3 requires Origin to play and will always say Origin is not running and thus forcing Mass Effect 3 to close. You can get all the way to the EA logo video and to the main menu. The game also tries to download an update but it does not seem to work. Oh well.

Mass Effect 3 Demo and Wine

I did try it via Origin on Wine and the install doesn't work. As far as I can tell, the installer fails when it's trying to install nVIDIA Physx redistributable package even though I already have Physx installed. I'm not sure if installing games works on Origin via Wine since I copied my Sims 3 Teaser install from an XP box. I think that's going to be how I will try to get Mass Effect 3 working.

UFC 143: Nick Diaz vs Carlos Condit

I'll keep this brief. Carlos won. Get over it.