• Constant Pain
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    58 months ago

    I have had an issue for years that I couldn’t pinpoint to a root cause (I’m strongly inclined to think it’s a kernel issue). I bought a CM Storm Quickfire TK keyboard with ABNT2 layout.

    The issue is: every time I try to type any key that is not a letter or number one, the computer freezes for a full ten seconds before acknowledge the press and showing the character. Tried a bunch of Linux distros through the years and the issue persists. On Windows it works flawlessly.

    Just give up trying to debug the problem, but I still have this hole in my heart where the cause of this issue lives.

    • Rob T Firefly
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      8 months ago

      If the keyboard has the same problem in multiple distros, surely the problem lives in the keyboard? Maybe you had a bad one.

        • Rob T Firefly
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          18 months ago

          Maybe there’s some glitch going on that Windows can ignore or self-correct for but Linux can’t. Such things are not unheard of in hardware.