10-24-2020, 04:18 PM
It took me awhile to get around to this. Thanks much for help. Since this is a new PBP, I'm not willing to open it up at this stage, in case I have to send it back or something. But you gave me a good hint, wdt. Already I had tried connecting an external USB keyboard as mentioned, with no luck. But the idea of disconnecting the laptop keyboard didn't occur to me as I didn't see how it would matter.
So, not willing to do a hardware disconnect I decided to try a software disconnect of the laptop keyboard using xinput, of course with an external USB keyboard connected. I really didn't expect much. I had to create a new user login to be sure there was no influence from autostart scripts I had written. Logging in as a different user brought the problem back full force, but after using xinput to disconnect the laptop keyboard, the external keyboard was working fine. I went back and forth disabling and enabling the laptop keyboard to be sure it wasn't a fluke, but each time the external USB keyboard showed no problem behavior IF the laptop computer was disconnected. If the laptop computer was enabled, both external and laptop keyboards demonstrated problem behavior.
That's a pretty big finding, I think, but not sure what to do with it. Does it mean the laptop keyboard is bad? Or could it still be a software thing?
So, not willing to do a hardware disconnect I decided to try a software disconnect of the laptop keyboard using xinput, of course with an external USB keyboard connected. I really didn't expect much. I had to create a new user login to be sure there was no influence from autostart scripts I had written. Logging in as a different user brought the problem back full force, but after using xinput to disconnect the laptop keyboard, the external keyboard was working fine. I went back and forth disabling and enabling the laptop keyboard to be sure it wasn't a fluke, but each time the external USB keyboard showed no problem behavior IF the laptop computer was disconnected. If the laptop computer was enabled, both external and laptop keyboards demonstrated problem behavior.
That's a pretty big finding, I think, but not sure what to do with it. Does it mean the laptop keyboard is bad? Or could it still be a software thing?
