Kevin McAllister on 17 Jul 2008 08:27:03 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] keyboard dies


On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Art Alexion wrote:

> Restarting the x-server restores the keyboard.

Is it a USB KVM?  I had a similar experience with my Dell E521 using a  
USB keyboard and mouse.  It is fairly well documented in the threads I  
started on the forums linked from my article here: http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2006/10/25/making-noise-dell-dimension-e521-linux-usb-problems/

Now I wasn't using a KVM but I found unplugging the keyboard and  
plugging it back in would reset things for a while.

It finally settled down after a BIOS update to the machine, but it  
resurfaced after a ubuntu upgrade.  I found after much further  
research that the Logitech mouse I was using was old as in USB 1.0  
old.  And was the source of the issues.  I bought a new mouse and  
never looked back.

-- 
Kevin McAllister
kevin@mcallister.ws

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