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From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Plasma: keyboard crash
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:40:02 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

>
> But that is another story. However, is there a way, to restart the
> keyboard,
> without leaving plasma? When the keyboard crashes, I can still open a
> console,
> start an onscreen keyboard (ie. kvkbd) and could use the mouse for input.
>


A similar problem is at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203724,
and a recommendation was to restart the relevant module:

> rmmod atkbd ; modprobe atkbd reset=1

I'm not sure what module is driving your keyboard, but "lsmod" should list
the loaded modules, and you can probably guess/tinker to find the module,
like maybe "uinput" or "hid" or "hid_generic" or "usb_hid" or "usbcore" or
....

However, I'd recommend you do the command in a single line, like above,
rather than separate lines, in case you kill your mouse in the process and
lose the ability to mouse-type.

-- 
Kent

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On T=
ue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Hans <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:h=
ans.ullrich@loop.de" target=3D"_blank">hans.ullrich@loop.de</a>&gt;</span> =
wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8=
ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
But that is another story. However, is there a way, to restart the keyboard=
,<br>
without leaving plasma? When the keyboard crashes, I can still open a conso=
le,<br>
start an onscreen keyboard (ie. kvkbd) and could use the mouse for input.<b=
r></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>A similar problem is at=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D203724">https=
://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D203724</a>, and a recommendation wa=
s to restart the relevant module:</div><div><br></div><div>&gt; rmmod atkbd=
 ; modprobe atkbd reset=3D1</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not sure what =
module is driving your keyboard, but &quot;lsmod&quot; should list the load=
ed modules, and you can probably guess/tinker to find the module, like mayb=
e &quot;uinput&quot; or &quot;hid&quot; or &quot;hid_generic&quot; or &quot=
;usb_hid&quot; or &quot;usbcore&quot; or ....</div><div><br></div><div>Howe=
ver, I&#39;d recommend you do the command in a single line, like above, rat=
her than separate lines, in case you kill your mouse in the process and los=
e the ability to mouse-type.</div><div><br></div><div>--=C2=A0</div><div>Ke=
nt</div><div><br></div></div>
</div></div>

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