Hi there,
On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running QEMU emulator version 9.1.0 (openSUSE Tumbleweed)
I have three Linux distros, and all three are affected by this keyboard
problem.
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.
I am running a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, with Logitech's
USB transmitter/receiver plugged into a USB port. I have tried other
USB ports and the problem continues.
Does anyone have any ideas .. it sounds like a bug to me.
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.
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. ;)
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73,
Ged.
