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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:41:15
Message-Id: 20150818164043.6b794efe@a6
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day by Heiko Baums
1 On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:38:10 +0200
2 Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3
4 > Am 18.08.2015 um 04:04 schrieb walt:
5 > > I see the keyboard problem in mate and xfce4 (the only ones I use
6 > > now). I've wondered about the same things but I don't know how to
7 > > debug those possible scenarios.
8 >
9 > And which terminal emulator are you using?
10
11 I've seen the keyboard halting problem using xterm and gnome-terminal
12 (running under mate, not gnome, but it seems to work normally).
13
14 >
15 > > At the moment I'm waiting for my new keyboard to arrive from amazon,
16 > > hoping to pin the blame on flakey hardware instead of flakey
17 > > software.
18 >
19 > Somehow I doubt that it's the keyboard. I rather guess it's either a
20 > wrong configuration of or a bug in the desktop environment, the
21 > terminal emulator and/or systemd/udev.
22
23 I plugged in my new keyboard two hours ago. So far no problems but
24 that doesn't mean much yet. I used the old keyboard for about ten
25 hours this morning and it stopped only once, about eight hours ago.
26
27 If the new keyboard works correctly for the rest of this week I'll be
28 convinced it was hardware :)