I have been having this bug off and on ever since using Ubuntu Breezy (pretty sure it happens in both 386 and 686... but since it's so random, and since I never really boot 386, I can't tell). I just found what I think to be a breakthrough while booting up my PC today.
I started my machine up, and watched it get to the familiar gdm login screen which will decide my keyboard input's fate for the session. Again, I was greeted with the familiar sign that my keyboard was not going to work again: the num lock light was lit after the boot process finished and brought me to gdm. Absolutely no keyboard input does anything while it's in this zombie state. Then, I decided that I've been sick of this for so long that I'd try unplugging my keyboard again to no avail. Then, I realized that I had never actually tried plugging my PS/2 keyboard into my Dell PC's other PS/2 port (the one that's labelled on the back for use with a mouse). To my surprise, my keyboard was working again!! I sit here typing this with the keyboard plugged into the mouse PS/2 port! Luckily my mouse is not a PS/2 mouse, but a USB optical mouse ;), so I do have mouse input as well. I also just tested a PS/2 mouse in the keyboard port, but the port itself is zombified... I can plug my keyboard in, it gets power of course, but no input is taken. Maybe an off by 1 bug? Hopefully useful info: Computer: Dell XPS Desktop Generation 2 Processor: Pentium 4 3.2GHz w/ Hyperthreading Mobo: Dell-ified intel i875p chipset Keyboard: standard Dell brand PS/2 keyboard Mouse: Razer Copperhead USB mouse OS: Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS Kernel: 2.6.15-26-686 xorg.conf included as attachment ** Attachment added: "my current xorg.conf file" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4226438/xorg.conf -- PS/2 keyboard does not work https://launchpad.net/bugs/48877 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
