Bug#677173: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 2012-06-12, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> I have a USB keyboard attached to my laptop, and I use it as the main
> keyboard. I was using it, and suddenly it no longer worked at all (for
> instance, xev didn't report any event). The device was still seen by
> /lib/udev/findkeyboards and by lsusb. And the laptop keyboard was
> still working. I had to unplug the keyboard and plug it in again so
> that keys worked again (I also had to log out and log in again to make
> special keys work, due to some X window bug I think).
>
> I've had this problem twice: now and a week ago. Never before, AFAIK.
[...]
> Bus 008 Device 007: ID 05ac:0221 Apple, Inc. Aluminum Keyboard (ISO)
[...]
> The keyboard has a USB hub:
[...]
> A mouse was attached to this hub and was still working when the
> keyboard was no longer working.

On 2012-06-17 Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> The problem has just occurred again: the keyboard no longer works
> from X. But it still works in a VT. If I run
>
>   /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event1
>
> from an xterm, the keyboard works for this command (but no longer
> once I terminate it). If I quit the X session, a new X session is
> started by gdm3, and the keyboard also works from this new X session.
[...]
> Reassigned to xserver-xorg-input-evdev to be like Ubuntu:
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/1002951
>   "keyboard input of 1st keyboard is ignored in X after a while"

This is a contentless reply to let the Debian X maintainers know about
their new bug. :)  Please feel free to reassign back to the kernel if
the cause seems to be there.

Thanks.

Ciao,
Jonathan