My keyboard is connected but input is not registered

[Championer]

So I have a Skyloong GK75 Triple-mode keyboard that has bluetooth, usb and 2.4ghz wireless. I was trying to connect it with my Steam Deck via bluetooth and it connected without any problems. But when I went to type something on it I noticed how no matter which key I pressed, there was nothing being typed out.

I checked through everything from if I was on windows (what everything else uses) and not mac connection, tried to reconnect it, went from desktop mode to game mode and retried, changed from stable to beta and everything else I could think of. Nothing helped me.

I then tried my friends really cheap china bluetooth keyboard and it connected fine and I could type without any problems. So then I started to wonder if it was something wrong with my keyboard, so I connected it through cable and also tried 2.4ghz wireless and it worked fine (I also wanna note that my phone and pc could connect through bluetooth without any problems). I tried putting it on bluetooth while wired and it still did not work.
My last idea was to open Konsole on desktop mode and typed in "sudo btmon", entered my admin password and connected both my keyboard and my friends one. When I pressed the keys on my friends keyboard everything looked normal, but when I pressed a key on my keyboard I saw that it registered the input but there was some type of purple text and it looked wrong.
I could see a difference between how both keyboards key presses was registered and I feel like the Steam Deck is registering the key input on my keyboard wrong. It receives the input but doesn't know what to do with it. I don't know if there is anything I can do and if I could get some help from someone that knows more then that would be awesome

[Ajzak]

+1 I've the same problem, i think it's fixed in the newest bluez update, so if it's pushed to steamOS it should be fixed

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+1 Since 3.5 I have lost physical mouse and keyboard

[Xbob42]

Saaame.

[deaddoof]

Originally posted by Pioneer:

So I have a Skyloong GK75 Triple-mode keyboard that has bluetooth, usb and 2.4ghz wireless. I was trying to connect it with my Steam Deck via bluetooth and it connected without any problems. But when I went to type something on it I noticed how no matter which key I pressed, there was nothing being typed out.

I checked through everything from if I was on windows (what everything else uses) and not mac connection, tried to reconnect it, went from desktop mode to game mode and retried, changed from stable to beta and everything else I could think of. Nothing helped me.

I then tried my friends really cheap china bluetooth keyboard and it connected fine and I could type without any problems. So then I started to wonder if it was something wrong with my keyboard, so I connected it through cable and also tried 2.4ghz wireless and it worked fine (I also wanna note that my phone and pc could connect through bluetooth without any problems). I tried putting it on bluetooth while wired and it still did not work.
My last idea was to open Konsole on desktop mode and typed in "sudo btmon", entered my admin password and connected both my keyboard and my friends one. When I pressed the keys on my friends keyboard everything looked normal, but when I pressed a key on my keyboard I saw that it registered the input but there was some type of purple text and it looked wrong.
I could see a difference between how both keyboards key presses was registered and I feel like the Steam Deck is registering the key input on my keyboard wrong. It receives the input but doesn't know what to do with it. I don't know if there is anything I can do and if I could get some help from someone that knows more then that would be awesome

Highend HID known to do awkward stuff.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/reporting-bugs.html#reporting-bugs-keyboard

https://bugs.kde.org/

I would report the issue to KDE and hope someone who understand enough about input can look at what is the issue. They will need logs etc.

[Xbob42]

I was able to partially resolve my issue. While bluetooth is still borked, I was able to get my Skyloong working over 2.4GHz and USB. Originally it wasn't working on any of the 3, but 2.4GHz and USB just weren't working because my dock's USB connection to my Deck seemed to have messed up a bit, which I noticed when it showed I was on wifi instead of ethernet. After replugging it, I was good to go.

Still confused why Bluetooth isn't working (same issue, it connects, but no input) but whatever, 2.4GHz is fine for now. Bluetooth's just more convenient.