I'm having a keyboard problem on a dell latitude C800 laptop. I get dead keys. they seem to "go dead" when the laptop lid is shut while the system is up and running as best I can tell. I had assumed that the notebook keyboard needed to be replaced because sometimes they dead keys come back to life for short periods of time. So I replaced the keyboard. This did not restore the dead keys tho. there is a pattern of the dead keys tho......example: at the moment the dead keys are: the "3" key above the "E" key, the "E", "D", and the "C" key are all dead( these keys form a diagonal line starting with the "3" key ending with the "C" key). however plugging in a USB keyboard gets me around the dead key problem. I had this problem in 7.10, did a fresh install and the problem went away for a while. Then I did a fresh install of 8.04 and had no dead keys for several weeks, then suddenly they showed up( while g/f) was using notebook. the hassle became too much since she was using it most of the time. so we replaced the notebook for her use. I started using it full time with another fresh install of 8.04.1, and for over a month is worked very well, I thought the problem was solved. Then I closed the lid assuming hibernation would invoke, but ever since I have the above mentioned dead keys again. There is one thing I am certain of, re-booting never once produced the dead keys issue. shutting down the notebook never produced the dead key problem, I am certain that the problem showed up only after the suspend to hibernation was invoked but also I had to change the wifi configuration because I was trying to login to a different network. my user name and password contain the dead keys so this is a major problem. I have set the keyboard to the correct keyboard using the keyboard list in the preferences drop-down, noting works. There is one thing I am certain of before everything else, if I format again, the problem WILL be gone ( proving its not the keyboard) but the problem WILL come back later. any help ?
PS: the dead keys are NOT always the same dead keys listed above, the shift position on the keyboard, but they always seem to produce a diagional line of dead keys beginning with a numeric key, and ending at the space bar. -- Keyboard stops responding in X https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
