Snow Leopard Loses My Keyboard
Posted September 7th, 2009 @ 11:08am by Erik J. Barzeski
Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, my keyboard has been "lost" by my Mac Pro a few times. Suddenly keyboard input will simply cease to work - or at least all of the letter and number keys.
The fix I've found is to hit ctrl-eject (which still works), click "sleep" with the mouse (which continues to work), and then re-awaken the machine. My keyboard works after that.
It may not be a Snow Leopard bug, but rather a TypeIt4Me bug, which also exhibits another bug where expansions take over the clipboard. That's annoying and still isn't fixed in TypeIt4Me 4.2.
Update: Happens under 10.6.1 too. It's so infrequent I can't really disable TI4M to see if that's the problem. It's only happened four times since I installed Snow Leopard.
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Posted 11 Sep 2009 at 5:47pm #
I had the same problem once yesterday (after installing 10.6.1) and I do not have TypeIt4Me installed. I ended up sleeping/waking as well to get it back.
Interestingly, using the Dev Tools USB Prober it showed the keyboard still connected but it was marked as “(Device is suspended)â€
Posted 13 Sep 2009 at 4:57pm #
Happens to me too, no TypeIt4Me installed either. Happens on a fresh install of SL and 10.6.1 update, not a 10.5 upgrade. I think its related to USB storage. Will report again later!
Posted 17 Sep 2009 at 7:05pm #
Nope, not the USB drive either. Have you found a solution to the problem yet?
Posted 05 Oct 2009 at 10:12pm #
yep, lost keyboard (wired original mac) - macpro with 10.6.1, very random process.
Posted 16 Oct 2009 at 8:17am #
Same here. The problem is related to spaces. You can find other users with the very same problem here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10223564