Computer wakes, keyboard sleeps on

[Never you mind]

On 15/05/2007, at 8:48 PM, Tom Judge wrote:

> Never you mind wrote:
>> The keyboard stays asleep after everything else has woken up. How do 
>> I begin troubleshooting this problem?
>> I use a KVM switch to share the KVM between two machines. The other 
>> machine runs Windows, everything works as it should there.
>> Malcolm
>
> Does the KVM you are using have keyboard and mouse emulation for when 
> the system is not active on the KVM.

yes, I think it does but I'm not sure I can find the documentation for 
the device now to confirm its behaviour.

> Most systems only enable the keyboard if the system detects it on 
> boot,  it could be the same when waking from a sleep state.

Watching the boot process I see that there is a keyboard error but the 
keyboard then works once the system is running. That does seem odd. 
I'll try removing the KVM and see what happens.

malcolm