Remedy for those afflicted with occasional keyboard lag and seized I/O?

Brucehankins

I use a HP wireless keyboard and mouse combo, and my keyboard gets iffy sometimes if the mouse is too far from the receiver. The range sucks, but I love the keyboard, soooo....

Not on Linux but on Windows, I've had 2 separate Logitech devices go wonky because of the unifying receiver. I don't know if they're software is available for Linux, but they do have an app for the receivers that allows you to pair as well as update firmware.

brent

Brucehankins thanks for your response, that's a lot of anecdotal evidence that supports the device theory. "they do have an app for the receivers that allows you to pair as well as update firmware."---now that might be helpful.

brent

Brucehankins even if the dongle, uh, I mean 'unifying receiver'🙂 went to heck then I can see where one is wonked.
If one is not wonked then:

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Read the things the DEV Team did with this thing in changelog. It's a powerful tool. But 1) a can of worms I do not want to open up and 2) a can of worms I don't have the brain power to process. I'm happy now.

elfprince

brent I am very happy that your system is 'seizure-free', finally! Lets' hope it stays that way for a loong time. :-)

Yeah, I never trust wireless devices. Always have usb mouse and keyboard and ethernet cable. Don't need problems.....

brent

elfprince we all have little hangups, and seeing more cables and wires on my desktop was my little ocd🙂 ..that's why I went wireless with mouse/keys. But it really makes no difference as I'm plugged back in again. I agree with you 500% on ethernet. When I click the 'connections' taskbar icon on wife's wifi W10 laptop, it shows piranhas and freaks everywhere. People name their wired connections so profanely...wireless seems like the unprotected wild west, circa 1850's...

Anyways: UPDATE #2: well into a second productive day after removing the wireless mouse and swapping a wired mouse. I haven't had a hassle-free Solus working environment for weeks. It's been 2 days of bliss.

Questions: what would cause wireless hardware to deteriorate it's relationship to an operating system?
Question: or is it a kernel thing?
Last question: is it even worth search-engine-ing "HARDWARE CONFLICTS LINUX KERNEL"? Do I have time for that😉?

elfprince

brent Only if you have lots of time to kill ...... :-)

brent

elfprince yup I did type those search terms in and saw a common theme in just the first page (wireless problems). But I didn't read nothing, No time! Thanks for your help, kind sir. I walked my hardware back a few years, but I'm pretty happy I did.

brent

MODS: I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it down to 1-2 culprits. I have almost 48 hours of peace being hard-wired. SOLVED, please.

Axios

I made a post earlier why is it hidden? I did not hide it.

brent

Axios never got to see it.

SOLUSfiddler

"Walkin' my hardware back a few years" is a great line of a song-yet-to-be-written about the daily hiccups having to rely on computers... Sounds like good ol' country to me... 😀

brent

SOLUSfiddler I could definitely hear a pedal steel guitar and a fiddle🙂when I wrote it...