Re: USB keyboard occasional key stuck

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On 18 February 2014 10:21, Peter Stuge <peter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Clinton Sprain wrote:
>> I noticed your examples are both fn combos. I'm seeing something like
>> this and it seems specifically related to the fn key. Reproducible on a
>> Macbook (3,1) and a Lenovo Yoga 13. Sequence is simple:
>>
>> Press key
>> Press fn
>> Release key
>> Release fn
>>
>> The key will be 'stuck' until you press another key. It seems to only
>> apply to keys that are part of a fn combo
>
> Fn is handled by the embedded controller (H8 as per Intel reference
> design in case of Macbook or Thinkpad) which has its own closed
> firmware which is rarely perfectly bug-free.

The likelyhood that the root-cause was in an embedded controller was
holding me back from reporting it.

I believe the Mac keyboards use the generic HID driver in Windows, so
it may be that there isn't a device-specific workaround, but maybe a
generic workaround, though I can't reason the mechanism without more
input-stack-fu.

I guess one test hack to confirm our sanity would be to re-read the
key state every 100ms until a matching key-up is received, logging
when it detects a disparity between key state and no key-up
received...?
-- 
Daniel J Blueman
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