Keyboard generating events

[Kjetil K. <kj...@kj...>]

Uhm,,,! 

Well, I'm apparently not quite there yet... 

My girlfriend just experienced that her keyboard and mouse locked up 
hard after a few hours' use. It could have been something like that I 
experienced too, but I did not investigate at that time. Locked hard 
means that the secondary mouse generates no events, and the LEDs on the 
keyboard can't be toggled. 

Now, I find that /dev/input/event2 is spewing out events persistently, 
even though no keys are hit. Well, it could be something else than the 
secondary keyboard, but it fits rather well with being this keyboard, 
right? Output from /proc/bus/input/devices:

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0d3d Product=0001 Version=0001
N: Name="Tangtop Generic USBPS2"
P: Phys=usb-00:04.2-2/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=120003
B: KEY=10000 7f ffe00000 7ff ffbeffdf ffffffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: LED=1f

On one hand, I've never seen this behaviour when using the keyboard on 
other ports, so perhaps it could be the driver, but OTOH, it is strange 
if the driver would generate keyboard events.... The scroll lock button 
sits in a somewhat awkward position, perhaps that could do it...? But 
then, I can't turn it off...

Any ideas? 

Also, is it some way I can reset the keyboard without rebooting the box?

Best,

Kjetil
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