[ltp] Keyboard issues with intrepid

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Phil Shotton wrote:
> After a week of using Intrepid on my T60p I've been very happy until the
> last couple of days, when I've increasingly experienced strange keyboard
> problems. Sometimes when I switch to a window expecting keyboard input
> around 50% of the letter keys don't work - always the same ones.
> Particularly notable is the I key - as I seem to use that a lot!
>
> If I alt-tab to another window and back again most times everything
> returns to normal. Sometimes it takes a couple of goes.
>
> Very occasionally (happened about 3 times in the last week) any program
> requiring keyboard input hanges. I can still navigate around using the
> mouse, and do anything that isn't requesting keyboard input. Don't know
> if this is related to partial keyboard failure or not.
> If I go to a virtual terminal everything is fine; go back to X and it's
> still hosed. Once in this state the only solution is to kill X. Nothing
> at all in the Xorg logs.
>
> Running  2.6.27-7-generic, ATI X-server, standard Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
> (clean install last week) with all updates applied, on a T60p with ATI
> Mobility FireGL V5250.
>
> Any clues?

Look at the kernel logs for anything complaining about the "EC" (ACPI
embedded controller, and what also takes care of the keyboard in a
ThinkPad).

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