Well, I got a similar problem earlier. I searched and found that it was due to the interrupt controller not getting reset and giving some conflict problems.
The solution to this was to add 'i8042.reset' to the end of your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst ______Sudarsan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
