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  1. Bug #962402
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 962402

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Bob Merhebi (bobmerhebi) wrote : Re: keyboard stops responding after backlight toggle

This also occurs on my Dell Studio XPS 1640.

I found that you don't need to kill X to regain functionality of the keyboard; just move to any virtual terminal (i.e; tty) using Fn+F# & back toX on F7.

@Zach: I cannot confirm this on my laptop!

P.S.: some of you might also be affected by the following bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/969453
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/41301

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
3.2.0-33-generic
amd64