myrkat

That is not so much an issue with Arch (or any OS at that point), but rather your BIOS. I have an Asus Sabertooth Z87 mobo, with latest BIOS, etc. and I also see this. It really slows down booting up (either Windows or Linux). I even bought a PCI USB card, hoping it was the USB chipset that Asus was using, but that, too, did not alleviate my issues. It kind of pisses me off that Corsair cannot stick to the standards for keyboards (even with a "BIOS Mode" toggle switch).

Sorry to rez this thread, but is your keyboard in direct sunlight at all? Sometimes plastics do not work out well in direct sun for long periods of time (and perhaps the replacements were also stored in the sun before being shipped?). Otherwise, this is sounding like a material failure; but given that you are alone in this, it might be something in your environment that isn't appreciated by your keys! Even things like hand lotion, or other chemical that might somehow get in there (it's a super long-shot, obviously, especially since they are keys seldom used). Anyway, while it's a P.I.T.A. for you, it's a great mystery to solve, nonetheless!

I forgot to ask, MSC, have you thought about integrating the IdleKeys or something similar in ckb? Seems like a natural fit...

I kind of hope they DO NOT hire him! The first thing we'd lose is this Linux / Mac driver, then he'd likely be forced to work on the bloat-ware that is the corsair software, likely focusing on the "male teenager theme" that seems to be popular with so many hardware vendors. Rarely do they take an adult approach to design (usually because the ones with the final say have little to no design abilities). Anyway, I'm just thrilled that community development is not swatted down by corsair. Keep up the great work! And if you use ckb, and haven't already, toss the dude a fiver or something via the paypal donate link on the github page...

Thank you so much for this! I recently bought the keyboard and had nothing but problems from BIOS/booting through Windows 8.1 and Linux. I was so pissed and depressed, I was about to send the P.O.S. back for a full refund, but I finally staggered into my Win8.1 (rarely used dual boot) and was able to update the firmware, install drivers, etc. I monkeyed with it in windows and thought it was a cool idea - and I'm not one of those flashy lights people, but I do like assigning colors to key groups, etc. While playing around with it under Windows 8.1, and the USB detection warning going off every few seconds (USB Device not recognized or some such), I rebooted into a decent OS (Mint 17.1) and was pleased to see it "sort of" remembered the colors (not the 16mil version, but the default whatever version) and it worked! I was ready to just let it be, then I found ckb! Man, am I glad I did! Not only did it "just work" but it is WAY more intuitive than the windows/Corsair version (which looks geared towards 15 year old boys, no offense). Very impressive work, sir! If you ever thought of adding "key groups" (the one thing the windows version I think did, but I never got it to work right / not intuitive) that would be awesome. Finally, the BONUS feature of re-mapping keys is quite good! I finally have a use for the dead key (aka Windows / meta / super-L) I use the right-side Win key to go to my NEXT profile, and the left-side key to open dolphin to my home directory (xdg-open ~). Great stuff. BTW: I have donated via the github page. Thank you very much! Corsair should (if they were smart) view this as how easy it is to have linux support. How powerful linux users can be to help a company's product along.