Ubuntu
acpid package

  1. Bug #285323
  2. Comment #113

Comment 113 for bug 285323

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Benjamin (tibasic-forever) wrote : Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

If you kill "gnome-power-manager" and change brightness, then alt+F2 and reload it the everything will still work. It must be a problem with gnome-power-manager.