Post B20Pi3AUdSfUysskXQ by publicvoit@graz.social
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(DIR) Post #B20Pi3AUdSfUysskXQ by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-06T10:45:14Z
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I've got a #Kinesis #Advantage2LF #keyboard. I switched PCB to the #kinT alternative using a #Teensy controller in 2021-02 to get #QMK firmware:https://github.com/kinx-project/kintSince a few weeks, I face issues: ESC switched its position with the ` character. I "fixed" that by swapping their definitions in the keymap.c file & re-flashing. Weird but that worked.Since a few days, they were swapped again. Swapped them back + flashed to their original definition position. Fixed.However, there's another issue I can't fix: the Alt-keys are behaving erratic. See their position on https://karl-voit.at/2021/05/23/advantage2-modifications/The left one is not doing anything at all. https://keyboard-tester.com/ doesn't show anything when they are pressed. I don't know if this is OK for that kind of modifier. The right Alt key is working sometimes.Both were mapped to KC_LALT. I tried to flash both with KC_RALT which didn't change anything.Could it be that the Teensy controller got faulty?Any other ideas?
(DIR) Post #B20R8tyb1DVGFIgXKq by mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-06T11:01:16Z
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@publicvoit "I've just got" or "I'm using since the olden days"?
(DIR) Post #B20RBXv3U07IhoI1aK by mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-06T11:01:48Z
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@publicvoit You have it for over 20 years?
(DIR) Post #B20VQ7ak3B9vDDzg9Y by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-06T11:49:12Z
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@mms No.How did you get the impression?
(DIR) Post #B20dqYGUIk7h6IdN56 by mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2026-01-06T13:23:38Z
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@publicvoit I missread "2021" as "2001" ;-(
(DIR) Post #B20g4eFT3EhJcY0SC8 by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-06T13:48:36Z
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@mms Ah, I see.No worries. 😉
(DIR) Post #B20jSITjwTIYuoeO12 by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-06T14:26:29Z
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I temporarily mapped the key "L" to the two Alt-positions and this worked. So the switches aren't dead themselves.
(DIR) Post #B20ncgajXthEPd8B3A by petejohanson@fosstodon.org
2026-01-06T15:13:04Z
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@publicvoit I mean... That's some pretty good debugging to narrow it down... Can you try a lower level HID tool (I use hid-tools python package on Linux to get `hid-recorder` for this purpose, but not sure if that works on Windows) to 100% confirm the keyboard isn't sending any reports for Alt?If not, does your QMK keymap have any user/processing callbacks that are trying to do modifier smarts and are accidentally swallowing the modifier press?
(DIR) Post #B20pVx7jsdnvZGUBpA by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-06T15:34:23Z
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@petejohanson Debian Trixie is running here.The thing is that the QMK config did not change in the meantime. Yes, I do some stuff with home row modifiers as well lately. Up until recently, this did work out fine."sudo apt-cache search hid-tool" did not yield any entry. I cloned https://pypi.org/project/hid-tools/ but I'm too stupid to run "uv run ./hid-recorder" with sudo. I guess the issue is that uv isn't installed system-wide. Without uv, dependencies fail. The usual Python hell.
(DIR) Post #B20rFYmUolCJLTrR1E by petejohanson@fosstodon.org
2026-01-06T15:53:49Z
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@publicvoit no pythonista here, but I usually just install hid-tools with --user and it doesn't require root to do so.I'd guess your HRM stuff is somehow amiss, I'm curious if you temporarily disable that if things work for your alt key?
(DIR) Post #B230FuQqHqVvS0D40O by xro@chaos.social
2026-01-07T16:44:04Z
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@publicvoit> ESC switched its position with the ` character. I "fixed" that by swapping their definitions in the keymap.c file & re-flashing.That is weird indeed. From your description, this is stable for days then suddenly flips then again stable for days.Not what I would expect from a FW bug.Is there a hardware switch somewhere that influences behavior? Solder jumper on new board? Wackelkontakt?#Kinesis #Advantage2LF #keyboard #kinT #Teensy #QMK
(DIR) Post #B237OoVwMEqLNlmsM4 by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-07T18:04:12Z
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@xro No jumper on the board as I know of. 😔 It's really a nasty issue.So far, I know that the issue moves with the mapping. So it's not related to the physical switch (position).
(DIR) Post #B237RMKjablCqll9pA by leyrer@23.social
2026-01-07T16:54:29Z
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@xro @publicvoit cosmic radiation!
(DIR) Post #B237RNTdL0TOOevmKm by publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-07T18:04:40Z
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@leyrer @xro Meanwhile, I also accept weirder leads ... 😔