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acpid package

  1. Bug #285323
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 285323

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

It does seem to be similar to the following bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/273009
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/278781
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/291472

This is all related to volume control but the effect is the same as described.