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    If you're and advanced/experienced user with a good programming background, I'd suggest you call X with strace, and monitor the output while doing those things. Hopefully it will give you an insight on what's going on behind the scene. Commented Oct 16, 2019 at 1:30
  • Also, it doesn't look completely unrelated to me. If your system is detecting the webcam as a keyboard, there is a conflict. I can connect 2 keyboards to my system and they will both work independently. If your X thinks the camera is a keyboard, and considering that a camera is constantly capturing images and sending it to the system, it's possible that your system is overwhelmed with too much "keyboard input", which might be why the other (real) keyboard doesn't work: X never gets a chance to process that input, in the middle of so much "fake" input. Commented Oct 16, 2019 at 1:35
  • I've seen issues like this with older kernels. For example this. Can you check with another kernel and see if that fixes it? There is more information in the bug and some of the duplicates. Commented Oct 16, 2019 at 14:46