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(Get the code!)
I just tried. Made absolutely no difference between the restricted driver and the OSS driver. My video board is a GeForce Go 7600 in a HP Pavillion dv9000z (AMD Turion 64) laptop.
Now here are two other mild discoveries made:
1. Inside the VM, the functionality of the CAPS key works. If I push it once, I get uppercase; if I push it again, I get lowercase. However, the CAPS indicator on my keyboard never changes... It normally does in other environments where I have used VMware. It should also change state inside and outside of the VM window dynamically (if one is in CAPS and the other is not, etc.).
2. The functionality of the CTRL/ALT/SHIFT/CAPS keys disappearing seems to be directly related to pressing CTRL+ALT+ENTER to lauch full screen from the VM console. If I use the VM within the window, everything seems to be fine (with exception that #1 still applies in window mode). However if I use CTRL+ALT+Enter, all bets are off.
3) If I use the "Fullscreen" button on the toolbar, I retain the ability to use the keyboard as normal when switching in and out of the VM in full screen.
There are a couple of mentions of xkbmap and that seems to fix the problem for some people. Is there any specific way that is run, or just running it fixes the problem? And how are people running it if dialogs and the like explode due to the strange keyboard state?