On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 08:01:43PM -0000, Dimitri Karamazov wrote: > I'm using a keyboard with some multimedia keys and sleep, poweroff buttons. > I avoid using those, but accidently hitting any of those keys renders the > keyboard to a freezed state, where only solution is to replug to use it again. > This is the case on both X11 and vt, but the connection is never lost, when I > hit the special keys, it just takes no input. Is there a solution to this? > If you have a second keyboard, I would suggest attaching both. There is a program that shows which keys are producing what output. I would see what is actually being sent out with those keys. The second keyboard would allow you to hopefully experiment a bit more without having to re-attach the problem keyboard.
Did you have problems before with this keyboard? I have a keyboard that frequently fails to attach at boot. unplugging and reattaching it is often necessary after boot, but only sometimes. Good luck, Chris Bennett