Re: Logitech wireless keyboard problems

[Frank McCormick]

On 2024-09-26 10:29, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>
> > If I leave any of them idle for more than 5 or 10 minutes, the keyboard
> > become unresponsive. To get it back I have to shutdown and re-run
> > the distro.
> > The mouse is not affected - it continues to respond normally.
> .
>
> To begin with I'd look in the logs (usually in /var/log) and e.g. use
> 'dmesg' to see if there's anything intersting.  If USB communication
> is somehow being broken for the kernel I'd expect that there would be
> something which mentions it.
 Checked the logs but I don't see anything there.

> As you say the mouse continues to respond it might be something in the
> keyboard itself over which you might not have a lot of control.  There
> are all sorts of tools for hacking with USB, have you tried anything
> like 'usbreset' for example?  If that helps, at least it would be
> better than a reboot and maybe you could put something in a crontab,
> to ping it every few minutes to keep it alive.  I've done worse. ;)
  That's a thought. Still hope to find the root cause.

Thanks