Comment 174 for bug 585765

Recently several people mentioned to stop using Ubuntu 10.04 and start using other distributions. I mentioned in # 47 and # 71 of this thread that I plan to do the same. I have now 7 distributions on two machines.

HP desktop , AMD 5600+ with : Fedora 13, OpenSuse 11.2, Gentoo (and Windows Vista on another disk)
Fedora 13 and Gentoo both fail occasionally caused by freezing of keyboard and mouse (once a week at most ) OpenSuse 11.2 seems very stable (seen only once).Note I can live with the failure frequencies. I choose for Fedora and OpenSuse 11.2 as my default system for my work.

HP laptop (8 years old with one Intel processor) : OpenSuse 11.3, PCLinuxOS (pretty neat BTW), Mandriva 2010,1 and Debian
I have limited statistics on keyboard failure, but it is rare. I did not notice any failure on Debian yet (running a 2.6.26 kernel !?).

Note I am using a mix of nvidia (Gentoo only) and standard Xorg drivers for the graphics dependent on distribution

Of course this does not prove anything, but failure rate on other distributions than Ubuntu are rare from my perspective.

Although I am convinced the basic bug is an issue around the kernel 2.6.32 and later (I see it on all distributions apart from Debian, & Ubuntu failed also without graphics-Xorg), there must be a variable in the Ubuntu distribution on top of the kernel and Xorg which makes Ubuntu unworkable for me on the AMD machine due to the failure rate

Note, I tried to install Ubuntu on the laptop using a LiveCD disc (nothing wrong with the CD, checked and rechecked). That failed too, it failed during booting of LiveCD (old hardware?), and yes indeed keyboard hangs too (including REISBUD interupts) ;-(