Ubuntu
acpid package

  1. Bug #285323
  2. Comment #67

Comment 67 for bug 285323

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

A similiar thing is happening to me on my Dell e6400 running 8.10. It only seems to happen when I'm running a dual head display. When I'm at home, with only the laptop display (i.e. now) I can't make it happen.

I find occasionally (mostly when running a virtualbox vm and clicking the hot key to leave the vm and when running vnc to a remote machine and then returning to my host with the mouse.

When it happens, I can move the mouse, but clicking it does nothing. I can alt-tab to go between windows, and can use the keyboard. I haven't tried the control-alt-f1 - will do so tomorrow. When it happens, I do a control-alt-backspace and log in again (most annoying!).

I am running with a Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M.