The issues seems to be 2 fold. First is the keyboard just seems to be "forgotten" by debian and it stops working. First time this has happened since starting to use debian YEARS ago. Not a gaming keyboard, just a plain one AZIO KB505U. Same board works fine on Windows 7 or 10. Also have switched out the keyboard, same result with other one. In addition it also seems to crash debian as well once the keyboard has quit. A reboot also seems to temporarily cure this, as I'm using it now.
Thanks for any tips.
John