> On my ASUS SP97-V PCs keyboard input is being lost for a few seconds 
> (between five and ten, at a guess) whenever there may be cause to 
> change the status of the keyboard LEDs.

Did you know about "options PCVT_NO_LED_UPDATE"?
This prevents my notebook from hanging when switching leds while I'm typing.

There just is crappy hardware out there, and sometimes it's not reasonable
to programm around the bugs - if they can be easily avoided.


Martin