[ale] keyboard problem

[Pete Hardie]

Another thing to check is that the keyboard is plugged into teh
correct port, if it's not a USB one - I had a long hunt to determine
why I couldn't interrupt the BIOS boot sequence until I found that.


On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 22:43, Tim Watts<timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The keyboard on my friend's Kubuntu 8.10 system has suddenly gone wacko. She
> fired it up the other day and noticed that the keyboard was unresponsive after
> logging onto the desktop. She can type but only after holding the keys down a
> long time and then the typmatic thing kicks in too.
>
> Here are my observations:
>
> - Keyboard works fine at the grub menu, KDE login, character-mode console and
>  under Windows.
> - Keyboard becomes really unresponsive after the desktop initializes
> - the keyboard is not dead but you have to hold the keys down long to get
>  anything
> - the numlock is responsive during desktop init but goes dead at the end
>  (using KDE4)
> - the mouse is responsive and apps launch with their usual start up times.
>
> I'm 99.9% sure this is a software problem. Any ideas what the problem is or
> where I can start looking?
>
>
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