Today at Oscon I picked up a live DVD of Fedora 20. When I got home I booted it on the laptop, and when it came up everything was working, including the keyboard. Amazed, I shut it down and booted to my regular Xubuntu 13.10 on the disk. It came up normally (not even to the Grub menu as before) and I was able to enter my password and log in. So here I am all fixed and I haven't even opened the case to clean the keyboard, let alone install the new one that is on the way from System76.
One small correction to the above: the right shift key is not working, nor is the left arrow key. I might discover more as I continue to use the computer, but at the moment I am functional again. I still plan on taking the keyboard out and cleaning it, which will probably solve the remaining issues. I have no explanation for why Xubuntu on the disk was always taking me to the Grub menu when it normally never did, and did not do so tonight. Nor can I explain the bizarre behavior of the Xubuntu 14.04 live DVD that I was using when I couldn't get past the Grub menu to boot my normal Xubuntu. But perhaps I should not look a gift horse in the mouth. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
