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  1. Bug #186264
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Comment 20 for bug 186264

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In , Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

At some systems the keyboard goes randomly dead.
This bug has initially been reported by Matt `da Wolf, but is confirmed by other people.
It has been detected on:
Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 and 8.04.1
Fedora 8 and 9
Debian
It's not related to the ATi or nVidia drivers, since it happens with both graphics cards.
It has been reported on KDE and GNOME.
It happens to both Ps/2 and USB keyboards, replugging them doesn't matter.

The only way to solve it is too restart the X server.

The bug report at Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/186264

It's obvious you need more information, since e.g. I don't have the problem, but others that have got an nVidia card and a PS/2 keyboard, just like me, do have the problem. There are already some log files at the LP bug report, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

Something that could be useful:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13097472/dmesg_diff
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13097468/Xorg.0.log

I've requested the Xorg.conf file, but that's not attached yet.