[BUG] keyboard dies (stops working until plug/unplug) in TTY when using Modules

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Hi, I have encountered a very weird behavior:

When you are in Linux TTY (a reliable reproducible environment for me is Arch Linux Live CD UEFI USB), when you touch your trackpoint, or click on mouse (left/right click) buttons on a keycluster - the keyboard dies and does not respond to anything until you unplug it and plug it back in again.

Furthermore, if I hold some key that triggers keys backlight, and then I touch trackpoint or click on mouse buttons of keycluster - keyboard dies but the light stays on, even if I stop pressing on the key that turned it on.

This actually forced me to de-attach trackpoint during the times when I’m reinstalling my Linux system because I would occasionally touch the trackpoint and cause the keyboard to stop working.

I was struggling with this issue for about a year - sometimes keyboard would randomly die on me during reinstalling the OS, sometimes very often sometimes more rare… until TODAY I finally discovered the root cause :smiley: couldn’t have been more happy. But here I am describing it in case you want to register this as a bug and fix it in some future version.

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Now thinking about it I should’ve probably created a github issue instead. Let me know if this is a valid bug and I can do just that.

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Well, I usually try to keep track of bugs on forum and deal with them, but forum topics are prone to get forgotten and lost. (Forum doesn’t enforce any way of keeping track of the state of such an issue, doesn’t send notifications to responsible people, etc..)

But in this case I have no idea what the cause may be or how to proceed, be it on forum or gothub…

If uhk is crashing, then running a 14.x firmware with a uhk80 should produce some crashlog.

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For the record I’m running 14.0.0 on uhk60. And I just tried to reproduce it on another TTY while I have my graphical environment loaded on the first one, and it does NOT reproduce. So the issue is present for me only when loaded in to Arch Live CD TTY.