Confirming on Dell Vostro 1000: Fn+up/down 'steals' keyboard input.
The "fix" for me was to use the magic SysRq key to reset the keyboard from a virtual terminal - alt+prtscr+r - I don't know if it's the VT switching or the magic keycombo that fixes it, but this is clearly an input layer bug.
Confirming on Dell Vostro 1000: Fn+up/down 'steals' keyboard input.
The "fix" for me was to use the magic SysRq key to reset the keyboard from a virtual terminal - alt+prtscr+r - I don't know if it's the VT switching or the magic keycombo that fixes it, but this is clearly an input layer bug.
$ apt-cache policy gnome-power-manager manager: ca.archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages dpkg/status
gnome-power-
Installed: 2.24.0-0ubuntu8
Candidate: 2.24.0-0ubuntu8
Version table:
*** 2.24.0-0ubuntu8 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ apt-cache policy linux-image ca.archive. ubuntu. com intrepid/main Packages
linux-image:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.6.27.7.11
Version table:
2.6.27.7.11 0
500 http://