Peculiar effect with keyboard -again

[Morgan Storey]

Try from the terminal (to redetect or resetup the keyboard)

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

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Regards
Morgan Storey


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Simone Bowskill <simbow at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Hello All
>
> Forgot to say before that I am using Lucid Lynx.
>
>
> I am sending this from my Wife's computer because of the effect
> explained below:
>
> On start up, I reach the normal login screen and can log in normally -
> from the keyboard.
> When the full normal window manager display comes up the keyboard goes
> dead - the mouse is OK.
> I then restarted and selected "repair broken packages", then "normal
> start" - the same effect was present - no keyboard.
> Restarted again but entered terminal mode - the keyboard behaved perfectly.
> Exchanged the keyboard with one that is OK (the one I am sending this
> message on) - same result as before.
>
> It would seem that when the X-server/window manager starts, the keyboard
> becomes disabled.
>
> Has anyone any ideas what would cause this and how I can fix it ??
>
> Many thanks in anticipation
>
> David Bowskill
>
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