Keyboard stops working

[Mats Ahlgren]

occurs in: Karmic and Lucid
hardware: Sony Vaio laptop

problem:
1-4 times a day, the keyboard will stop working. The mouse will still work though. To fix this requires either a hard-reset, or navigating to the logout button, and logging out and back in. Novice users, or users who do not use the mouse, or who are not using a desktop environment that allows saving with just the mouse, will lose their work. Unsaved files will require the user to save them using copy-pasting with the mouse.

After a few months of this problem, I noticed that holding down a key causes it to autorepeat. Thus, the keyboard is just broken "on keypress". For example, to type "testA", it would take about 10 seconds, and I would have to hold down t and let go the moment autorepeat started, then the same for e, then the same for s, then the same for t, then hold down shift for about a second, then hit A and lift up before autorepeat starts.

There doesn't seem to be any useful information in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or or /var/log/messages or dmesg, though I haven't checked extensively.

Rarity: unknown
Severity: absolutely infuriating, happens constantly, and is a major hassle and possible source of data loss for many users

[Mats Ahlgren (mats-ahlgren)]

please delete this bug, it has been replaced by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/746892