I have the same bug with 8.10 (64 bits) on a Dell Inspiron 1501. When I press Fn+Up to change the brightness, the keyboard stops to work and I can't click on the gnome menu bar. I use Ctrl+Alt+F# as a workaround. There was no such bug with Hardy.
-- Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs