Casual problems with my keyboard

Franco_64 · 2024-11-27 20:05:08

I have a good quality mechanical keyboard that works perfectly with other PCs - the tower I'm typing on now with Windows, a minipc with Arch, two laptops with Windows. But on this Arch installation it tends to frequently miss keystrokes and sometimes duplicates (triplicates and so on...) them.

The keyboard is connected to a USB 2.0 port and as I was saying, with the same computer and the same USB port, under Windows works perfectly.

Suggestions?

pvtvega · 2024-11-27 20:14:39

This could be due to a number of things.

1) Are you using a desktop environment? If so which one?
2) Are you running on X11 or Wayland?
3) If you run

journalctl -f

then unplug and reconnect the keyboard, does it appear that your system detects it normally without issues?
4) Can you check what your key repeat rate and delays are set to?
5) Have you tried a different USB port?

Franco_64 · 2024-11-27 20:29:40

1 - I'm using also a desktop environment, but the problem persist when I'm in console.
2 - See above (X11)
3 - Now I'm on Windows (also to see if problem come from sudden hardware fault, but keyboard works perfectly here)
4 - How can I see that?
5 - Other USB ports are not so easy to connect cause the lenght of keyboard cable. I have to reorganize my desktop before make this try.

pvtvega · 2024-11-27 20:56:59

Running

xset q

should output the keyboard settings. In general xset is a utility for controlling various settings in the X server. You can change the rates with

xset r rate <delay> <rate>

where delay is the time in milliseconds before a key starts repeating after a key is held, and the rate is the amount of key repeats per second after the initial delay.

seth · 2024-11-28 07:15:17

with the same computer and the same USB port, under Windows

Regardless of the keyboard, please 3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

But on this Arch installation it tends to frequently

Since which kernel version? Does it happen w/ the LTS kernel?
Is the console affected at all (ctrl+alt+f3)?

Arch Linux

#1 2024-11-27 20:05:08

Casual problems with my keyboard

#2 2024-11-27 20:14:39

Re: Casual problems with my keyboard

#3 2024-11-27 20:29:40

Re: Casual problems with my keyboard

#4 2024-11-27 20:56:59

Re: Casual problems with my keyboard

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Re: Casual problems with my keyboard

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