Strange keyboard mistake

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 01/03/14 05:00, by wrote:
>        Hi,
>        I got a very strange problem.
>        I got another keyboard for my laptop, everything goes well for days, but today, for some reasons when in csh environment, i got my new keyboard off my laptop's USB port, and just a few minutes later, after i put it back, keyboard got a mistake.
>        For example, when i type 'b', it became a "smile face", and other keys became other strange symbols too!
>        What is the most strange is that my original keyboard on my laptop became the same!
>        I got no idea how to do, so i hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot, after reboot, everything became normal.
>        Does anyone got any ideas about this strange behavior? Or if i do not want to reboot, what should i do when i encounter this situation again.
>        By the way, i use FreeBSD 8.4 RELEASE and my new keyboard is Logitech K310.
>        Thanks.
> ----by

Hi,

Are you sure you didn't press any LOCK keys, like NUMLOCK, CAPSLOCK or 
SCROLL LOCK when this happened?

"usbdump -i usbusX -f Y -vvv -s 65536" will dump the actual traffic 
towards the USB device. Maybe your USB keyboard has some "bugs" in it.

--HPS