Spontaneous numlock

[dsimic]

I hear you, having CapsLock turned on forcedly is very annoying; effectively, your hands become completely tied.

Let's try to do some debugging using your current setup, if you agree...  First, we should check how is the automatic suspending of the keyboard, as a USB device, currently configured on your PineBook Pro.  You can check that using the following command:

Code:

cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/*/power/control /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1*/*/power/control

If any of those is currently set to "auto", please disable the auto-suspend and see if the issues go away.  Many USB devices do not implement that feature correctly and misbehave when suspended randomly.  The reconfiguration could be done using the following command:

Code:

for knob in /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/*/power/control /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1*/*/power/control ; do echo on > $knob ; done

Also, the next time the issues happen, please try to manually suspend and resume the keyboard, as a USB device, and see if that changes the status of NumLock or CapsLock.  It could be done using the following commands, through a remote login, of course:

Code:

for knob in /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/*/power/control /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1*/*/power/control ; do echo suspend > $knob ; done
for knob in /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1/*/power/control /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1*/*/power/control ; do echo on > $knob ; done

As a note, "3-1" in the commands above is the ID of the keyboard as a USB device, which should be the same on your PineBook Pro.

Edit: I've updated the commands to cover all USB endpoints.  By the way, I also occasionally have some weird issues with the trackpad, which sometimes seems to stop recognizing button clicks or two-finger gestures, and typing anything on the keyboard seems to restore the trackpad to its normal state.  I'll also disable the auto-suspend, as described above, and see if this issue goes away.