** Summary changed:

- Partial keyboard and touchpad failure when switching to battery
+ Partial keyboard and touchpad failure in X after changing screen brightness

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
  
- When I unplug the power cord from my Dell 600m laptop, there is some
- breakage in X with the keyboard and touchpad if the first thing I do is
- adjust the screen brightness.  I can't type, can't move windows, can't
+ I originally recognized this problem when switching to and from the
+ battery, which is when I had to change brightness.  As it turns out,
+ that switch is not necessary - the problem occurs anytime I change the
+ screen brightness with Fn+Up or Fn+Down.
+ 
+ There is some breakage in X with the keyboard and touchpad after
+ adjusting screen brightness.  I can't type, can't move windows, can't
  change firefox tabs, etc.  Some functions still respond, like I can
  CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart X, and I can login, but the problem
  persists.  The problem is fixed if I change to another tty, then change
  back to X.
  
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
  Linux lappy686-mk2 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 
GNU/Linux

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Partial keyboard and touchpad failure in X after changing screen brightness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301351
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