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Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 95

[SOLVED]USB keyboard responding only while moving the mouse

I've got a cheap wireless USB keaboard and a wireless mouse. Since this morning, the keyboard started to behave in a strange way. That is, I can type only while moving the mouse or holding one of its buttons. Since I've got no spare keyboard to test, I have no idea how can I diagnose the problem. I've connected it for a while to an old laptop (Debian) and it seems to work perfectly there. It worked as well with my PC till this morning and the last 'pacman -Syu' on my machine was performed over a week ago, so I wouldn't associate this issue with a faulty package.
P.S. Since it's quite not convenient to type with one hand while moving the rodent with the other one, I'm writing this post from my old laptop... If there is something importand I need to provide, I'll try to access my PC and find it out
Thanks in advance...

EDIT: The problem was in my keyboard, that probably broke down somehow... Even lsusb could not recognize it correctly, so my first idea was to go to the nearest supermarket and purchase a new one... I did so and the new one works
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Last edited by Hwiparam (2015-08-04 18:24:48)