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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: wierd keyboard problem
From:       "Michael P. Conlon" <michael.conlon () sru ! edu>
Date:       2011-02-22 18:58:54
Message-ID: 201102221358.54800.michael.conlon () sru ! edu
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Teika--
On Monday, February 21, 2011 11:40:08 pm Teika Kazura wrote:
> Hi, Michal. It's more of a (k)ubunt issue. I mainly suspect consolekit
> / polkit thingy. I'm not conversant in them, and I recommend you to
> ask in ubunt forums.

	Thank you. I'll ask there. But I'll continue to read this mail for other 
information.
> 
> Or, "next day" may come from suspend / hibernate, aka s2ram / s2disk.

	I don't think so; I always shut down conventionally. I have never used 
suspend or hibernate.

--Mike
> 
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:52:04 -0500, "Michael P. Conlon" wrote:
> > 	I am running the latest Kubuntu Linux. Last week, when I was running
> > 	Kubuntu
> > 
> > 9.something, one day my keyboard stopped working under X. (I have a PS/2
> > keyboard, 32-bit Athlon processor, 256 Mbytes of RAM.) I soon discovered
> > that the keyboard worked just fine in the console, and for the KDE
> > login, but I could not enter text into any window or widget after login.
> > Also, pressing numlock or capslock does not illuminate the indicator
> > lights.
> > 
> > 	After fiddling with it for several days, I downloaded the latest Kubuntu
> > 
> > (10.10) figuring that it was time for an upgrade anyway. After
> > installation, the keyboard worked fine for one day. Second day, I was
> > back to the same problem: console input just fine, but no response once
> > logged into X. I tried both another PS/2 keyboard and a USB keyboard.
> > The system wouldn't boot (kernel panic) with the USB keyboard; the PS/2
> > keyboard exhibited the exact same problem as the original one. My
> > xorg.conf file is rather sparse, and it doesn't mention the keyboard.


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