'Suspend' disables keyboard

[Nosaji]

Binary package hint: yelp

I am able to 'Suspend' my computer, but when I press the power button (I wish I could just press any keyboard button as my computer is not always easily accessible) to wake it up. Then a login prompt appears. I can use my mouse to navigate around but I can not sure my keyboard to type in my password.

To keep from forcing a hard shut down, I press the "Log in with a different user" (not sure about exact verbiage at the moment). This brings me to a different login screen with more features. I can pull up an on-screen keyboard where I can use my mouse to type in my password to get back to my desktop. However, my keyboard is still disabled even once logged in. From this point I have to do a full "Log Out" which closes all my open applications. Once fully logged out my keyboard becomes fully active again. I am able to log back in, but all my programs have been closed.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 30 21:24:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686